Try restarting it in debug mode:

service denyhosts restart --debug

should do the trick.  Perhaps the denyhosts.log will indicate some 
weirdness.

Regards,

Phil



James Carman wrote:
> I have started seeing login attempts in my LogWatch emails.  I thought
> Denyhosts was supposed to take care of that, so I logged in and
> checked to see if it was running by doing "service denyhosts status"
> and it says that it is stopped.  So, I start it up using "service
> denyhosts start" and everything looks good in /var/log/denyhosts:
> 
> 2008-06-26 07:22:48,463 - denyhosts   : INFO     launching DenyHosts
> daemon (version 2.6)...
> 2008-06-26 07:22:48,468 - denyhosts   : INFO     DenyHosts daemon is
> now running, pid: 6895
> 2008-06-26 07:22:48,470 - denyhosts   : INFO     send daemon process a
> TERM signal to terminate cleanly
> 2008-06-26 07:22:48,470 - denyhosts   : INFO       eg.  kill -TERM 6895
> 
> Then, I do "service denyhosts status" and I get:
> 
> denyhosts.py is stopped
> 
> It seems to be dying for some reason.  Has anyone else seen this?  I
> am running version "denyhosts-2.6-7.fc8".
> 
> One thing that I did do today was to enable NTP sync on my server, but
> these issues were happening before that.
> 
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