Auto start denyhosts at startup

[Nils Kassube]

Keith Clark wrote:
> How do I auto start the denyhosts daemon when I boot up.  I have to
> execute the program as root.  I installed it via synaptic.
>
> I've installed it and modified its denyhosts.conf file.  I start it
> up with:
>
> sudo /usr/sbin/denyhosts --daemon --verbose
> --config=/etc/denyhosts.conf
>
> All seems to work fine, but it does not startup upon reboot.

Put the command

/usr/sbin/denyhosts --daemon --verbose --config=/etc/denyhosts.conf

in the file /etc/rc.local before this line:

exit 0

That will start the program as the last command of the boot sequence.


Nils