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Problem when starting up the blockhosts.py

Thu, 2007–May–31

FATAL ERROR: Config file Error: invalid line or value found for (LOCKFILE):
"/tmp/blockhosts.lock"
SSHD:
ProFTPD:
VSFTPD:
Pure-FTPd
ipop3d POP3 -----------------------
Dovecot POP3 -----------------------
Qpopper POP3 -----------------------
invalid syntax (line 2)

What exactly problem with this ? someone can teach me how to solve this matter ?

‹ Please help me get this working. BlockHosts dose´nt run automaticly ›
Sat, 2007-06-02 07:10 — ac

which version?

This may have been an issue with a previous version, please try the latest version, or comment out the LOCKFILE line if you are not using it.

Sat, 2007-06-02 13:20 — Anonymous (not verified)

I am using BlockHosts-2.0.3

now it's work when i do like this;

root@vds# ./blockhosts.py
root@vds#

but i can't see the id processes for this script when i'm doing ps aux via root access. It is running already or still not running ? i'm wondering it's not started yet, because ppl still can trying to hacking my server even more then 7 times.

How to make it show the id when we do "ps aux" command ? any idea ?

Thanks for you help.

Sat, 2007-06-02 22:10 — ac

not a daemon

blockhosts.py is not a daemon - it does not run in background, it does its thing, and exits, so you will only see it in ps -aux for a very short period.

The INSTALL file has more details on how to run it - with cron, or with hosts.allow commands, how to add debug flags, etc

Sun, 2007-06-03 03:05 — Anonymous (not verified)

Does it run already ?

Ic, so its already run once we do this command

root@vds #./blockhosts.py
root@vds #

am i rite ? but if like that how we can know that scripts working or not later ? does it showing on /var/log/secure all of the log which has been blocking ?

Sun, 2007-06-03 13:08 — ac

it has completed

Yes, it has completed its work.

You can run with verbose or debug arguments to see what it is doing, please see INSTALL file and the program documentation.

Mon, 2007-06-04 12:28 — Anonymous (not verified)

Thanks

I hope it's working properly now.

thanks again.