deny hosts removing an Ip and checking tcpwrappers

[Ahmed Kamal]

On 10/21/2010 05:40 PM, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Ahmed Kamal<ahmed.kamal at 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.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
>>
> Which one are you referring I opened /etc/denyhosts.conf
> but
> E486: Pattern not found: WORK_DENY
It's WORK_DIR not work_deny
like the line

WORK_DIR=  /var/lib/denyhosts


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