I've seen similar issues on two of my machines (fc4 and centos5). I finally created a Nagios monitor to check how old the /var/log/denyhosts file is, so I can restart it when this happens.
Dave On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I have noticed a strange problem with DenyHosts on both servers which I run. > After two or three weeks of running Denyhosts (as a daemon) it will stop > responding. The process is still there when I do a "ps", but the > synchronization stops working and the logs are not analyzed anymore, so new > bruteforce attempts are not immediately blocked. Also killing the process > doesn't work, I have to issue a "kill -5". In regular operation a "kill" > works fine quits the process. > > I also noticed that that issuing a "/etc/init.d/denyhosts stop" always gives > me the message "DenyHosts is not running", even though it is running and when > I try to restart it tells me the that the pid files exists "DenyHosts could > not obtain lock (pid: 21999) > [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/run/denyhosts.pid'" - as expected. > > Any ideas? > > System is Debian Linux 4.0 > > Thanks, > Jan > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone > _______________________________________________ > Denyhosts-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/denyhosts-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Denyhosts-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/denyhosts-user
