Hi all,

I have recently installed denyhosts to help guard against bruteforce ssh attacks on my Fedora 12 server from the Fedora repositories. If I manually start denyhosts (as root) using:

/usr/sbin/denyhosts.py --daemon

it works fine. The denyhosts log file is created and indeed the /etc/hosts.deny file is updated. However if I make attempts to start denyhosts automatically upon the server restart denyhost fails with a permission denied error for /etc/hosts.deny (error 13)

I have tried using chkconfig to enable /etc/init.d/denyhosts on run levels 3, 4 and 5. I have also tried including the line:

/usr/sbin/denyhosts.py --daemon

in /etc/rc.local Both of these attepts report the same error. Can anyone suggest a way to automatically start denyhosts or know why this problem might be happening?

a question?
you do know that fedora 12 will hit end of life in 6 months ? and you WILL need to install fedora 14 at that time .
this is a lot of work for a server. reinstalling the OS every 6 months when fedora releases a new version. I would recommend using a LONG life distro -- something with 5 to 7 years of support ( and not the 13month support that fedora has)