But it might be possible that a new instance is fired before another one has been terminated, because the daemon launches the DenyHosts command on every log file change.
~Ceriel$ sudo python /usr/local/bin/denyhosts.py -c /usr/share/denyhosts/ denyhosts.cfg -n --purge --sync
Password: DenyHosts could not obtain lock (pid: 20191) [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/run/denyhosts.pid' $ ps -p 20191 PID TTY TIME CMD Op 9 dec 2008, om 02:13 heeft Phil Schwartz het volgende geschreven:
Is there another DH process running? Does the pid file ever get removed automatically?Phil On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Ceriel Jacobs wrote:After applying the 2 fixes at http://tinyurl.com/6a8llp the error messages are gone.However the script itself now seems not to be runned, according to system.log: Dec 9 01:23:20 mac02 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.sourceforge.denyhosts): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds Dec 9 01:23:29 mac02 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.sourceforge.denyhosts): Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds Dec 9 01:27:21 mac02 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.sourceforge.denyhosts): Throttling respawn: Will start in 4 seconds Dec 9 01:31:52 mac02 com.apple.launchd[1] (org.sourceforge.denyhosts): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 secondsAnd denyhosts.log doesn't seem to be update, or is that the correct behaviour if denyhosts is not running in daemon mode?In our situation denyhosts is being executed as:python /usr/local/bin/denyhosts.py -c /usr/share/denyhosts/ denyhosts.cfg -n --purge --syncWhen issueing this from the command-line, the result is as follows: DenyHosts could not obtain lock (pid: 4103) [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/run/denyhosts.pid'This file has already been removed manually, but within a few minutes, this error reappears.How to solve this problem permanently? Best, Ceriel PS Running on Mac OS X 10.5.5, Python 2.5.1-- Regards, Phil Schwartz - http://www.phil-schwartz.com Open Source Projects: - DenyHosts: http://www.denyhosts.net - Kodos: http://kodos.sourceforge.net - ReleaseForge: http://releaseforge.sourceforge.net - Scratchy: http://scratchy.sourceforge.net - FAQtor: http://faqtor.sourceforge.net
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