Circa 14:54:01 on Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Sandy Herring wrote: 
[...]
> > You have a corrupted line in purge-history, its missing at least one
> > colon: "some-IP:1:Sat Aug 30 09".
> > 
> > Don't know about Centos but I have that file in:
> > 
> >     /usr/share/denyhosts/data/purge-history
> 
> Thanks, René! The file is in the same location on CentOS. The first line
> of the file was a mongo binary string ending with a partial datestamp. I
> deleted just that one line and restarted the DH daemon. I'll check in an
> hour and see if that untwisted its shorts and let you know.

It turns out there was more than one corrupted line. I set the file
length to 0 and now all is running smoothly. purge-history is being
populated, and no corruption is evident. /var/log/denyhosts shows
purging and syncing on the hour is occurring normally. Thanks again for
you help, René!

cheers,
Sandy
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