Re: [Denyhosts-user] denyhosts purge-history

[Terry B. <te...@do...>]

Thanks Phil. As I mentioned, that's the first thing I grep'd for but there were no entries with 'Wed Sep 22 12' in hosts.deny. That's what got me looking in /opt/local/share/denyhosts/data where it turned up in purge-history.

I have periodically edited hosts.deny by hand to add blocked IPs in the same way that denyhosts adds them, e.g.,

# Terry: Tue Jul 13 12:27:00 2010 | ALL: 75.125.144.26
ALL: 75.125.144.26

Could this have confused things?

Thanks,
-Terry

On Jan 28, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Phil Schwartz wrote:

> 
> Looks like the corresponding entry in /etc/hosts.deny may have been corrupted.  Try searching for "Wed Sep 22 12" in that file and removing it and the next line.  The first line is a commented timestamp that DH uses and the second line is the actual line that tcpwrappers uses.
> 
> Phil
> 
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, Terry Barnum wrote:
> 
>> I hadn't check denyhosts logs in several weeks, but yesterday I noticed denyhosts has been having problems trying to purge old entries. They all looked like this:
>> 
>> 2011-01-27 12:26:06.996 - denyfileutil: INFO    purging entries oder than: Thu Jan  6 12:26:06 2011
>> 2011-01-27 12:26:07.047 - root        : ERROR   invalid literal for info() with base 10: 'Wed Sep 22 12'
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/DenyHosts/deny_hosts.py", line 241,
>> in sleepandPurge
>>   purge_time)
>> ... more traces and then denyhosts is relaunched
>> 
>> No entries with 'Wed Sep 22 12' in hosts.deny but grep reported that string in the binary file /opt/local/share/denyhosts/data/purge-history. I removed purge-history to see if denyhosts would be happier and sure enough it started working again.
>> 
>> Any ideas what could've caused purge-history to have problems? It's been running fine for many months without any problems.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -Terry
>> 
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