deny hosts removing an Ip and checking tcpwrappers

[Ahmed Kamal]

On 10/21/2010 05:34 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Ahmed Kamal<ahmed.kamal at 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