On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Ahmed Kamal <ahmed.ka...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 10/21/2010 05:34 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Ahmed Kamal<ahmed.ka...@canonical.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 10/21/2010 04:40 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> I could not find any where the documentation the only best which I got >>>> was >>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingSecurityTools >>>> >>>> My question is the following blog says to remove an IP from >>>> /etc/hosts.deny which denyhost has blocked >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-delete-remove-ip-address-that-denyhosts-blocked/ >>>> you need to have a directory /usr/share/denyhosts/data >>>> I do not find any such directory >>>> >>>> Also when I tried to check tcp wrapper configuration >>>> as given here >>>> >>>> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/block-ssh-attacks-with-denyhosts/ >>>> >>>> tcpdchk -v >>>> Cannot find your inetd.conf or tlid.conf file. >>>> Please specify its location. >>>> >>>> what does the above output mean? >>>> How do I make sure denyhosts is doing its job? >>>> >>> http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/faq.html#3_19 >>> Which seems to me to be /var/lib/denyhosts >> >> What is WORK_DIR which your link is saying? > > A parameter in the configuration file >
Which one are you referring I opened /etc/denyhosts.conf but E486: Pattern not found: WORK_DENY -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
