Auto start denyhosts at startup
Keith Clark
keithclark at k-wbookworm.com
Tue Jul 7 21:13:47 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 23:09 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> 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
>
>
Nils,
Will that start it as root?
Keith
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