At 9:32 PM -0500 7/29/07, René Berber sent email regarding Re: [Denyhosts-user] Getting denyhosts running on OS X: >René Berber wrote: >[snip] >>> "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/re.py", >>> line 233, in _compile >>> raise error, v # invalid expression >>> error: unknown specifier: ?P& >> >> This last error is really strange, did you change anything in denyhosts.cfg? > >OK, I know what happened here. > >You copied the recommended string from the Web >site, but that string has mangled >html in it: instead of "<" it says "&lessthan;" and instead of ">" it has >"&greather;" or something similar (I don't store html in my brain ;-)
Actually, René, that's how the string was in the config file for the OS X installation that was linked from the web site. Apparently, whoever packaged that for OS X users, introduced the error or copied it from the web site. I noted the html entities and thought it curious, but since I don't really understand what all this is doing, left it alone since it matched the instructions on the denyhosts web site. Now that I corrected that RegEx, I get: smtp:/usr/share/denyhosts root# ./daemon-control start starting DenyHosts: /usr/bin/env python /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/bin/denyhosts.py --daemon --config=/usr/share/denyhosts/denyhosts.cfg smtp:/usr/share/denyhosts root# It looks to me like it is running. I have two instances of python running now (actually, one "Python" and one "python".) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Denyhosts-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/denyhosts-user
