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BlockHosts dose´nt run automaticly

Tue, 2007–Apr–10

Hi!, I hope someone can help me with my problem.. (Debian)

I cant get BlockHosts dose´nt run automaticly each time someone is trying
to access the server using ssh/proftpd..

..but when I run the script manually it works just fine.

/etc/hosts.allow

#---- BlockHosts Additions
#---- BlockHosts Additions
sshd, proftpd: ALL: spawn (/usr/bin/blockhosts.py --verbose
>> /var/log/blockhosts.log 2>&1 )& : allow

//rewtioz

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Tue, 2007-04-10 06:43 — ac

logs and correction

The line added in hosts.allow is not correct - there should be a back-slash \ after the word verbose.

Then if no entry is seen in syslog output (usually /var/log/messages) or /var/log/blockhosts.log, then maybe one of the requirements of blockhosts is not being met (no TCP_WRAPPER support on that server), or there are other lines in hosts.allow that are preventing it from reaching the lines above.

Wed, 2007-04-11 02:17 — Anonymous (not verified)

Ahh, that was the missing

Ahh, that was the missing backslash that was the problem :)
Thanks ac, and thanks for a good script !