Re: [Denyhosts-user] Why are there entries in hosts-restricted when no restricted-usernames

[Jesse S. <jes...@ya...>]

On 01/10/15 08:39 AM, Daniel Sutcliffe wrote:
>>>>>>> "DS" == Daniel Sutcliffe <da...@ch...> writes:
>> DS> I realized after I sent the above that the fact that systemd has
>> DS> become almost ubiquitous is making it harder and harder to support
>> DS> packages for EL6 and earlier and was thus am a lot less surprised
>> DS> than I was when I first found this discrepancy.
> 
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <ti...@ma...> wrote:
>> Well, initscripts aren't that hard.
> 
> This is very true, but when they have been removed from the
> spec/src.rpm it makes the task more than the trivial tweaking and
> rebuilding.
> 
>> It's more about me not being able to remember what ancient python
>> version is on which EL release, as well as having no way to actually test
>> the package.
> 
> That is always the headache, made easier in these days of
> virtualization, but when it comes down to it there are just not enough
> hours in the day.
> 
>> The Fedora package will be using python3 once I get it updated, which
>> cuts out EPEL (though EPEL7 does have some of python3 at this point).
> 
> denyhosts 3 being focussed on python3 might explain the issue I am
> currently seeing, but it might also just be a dependency thing. The
> process runs for a bit and then falls over with some complaint about
> TupleType ... This is probably not the thread or the place to really
> discuss this though, this being the defunct denyhosts projects mailing
> list. Where is the active forum/list for discussions on the new
> GitHub/SFdenhost?
> 
>> DS> I have just managed to produce a denyhosts-3.0-0.el6.noarch.rpm so
>> DS> soon enough I shall have a better idea if my original issues are
>> DS> going to be improved by this later version of denyhosts.
>>
>> Well, if you want to maintain denyhosts there, feel free to sign up.  I
>> can click all of the necessary buttons to give you access.
> 
> I have no problem making my specs and RPMs available publically, not
> sure how qualified they'll be to actually have them live in EPEL but
> lets getting a working RPM first and think about where the spec
> belongs later. I do welcome the opportunity to contribute to denyhosts
> and/or EPEL whatever.
> 
> Back on topic: although my 3.0 install isn't exactly fully functional
> yet, I can already see that hosts-restricted is still getting 0 count
> entries for attempted logins that aren't anything to do with
> restricted-usernames - and checking the AGE_RESET_ bit of code I
> suspect is causing this does not seem to contain any changes...
> 
> Let's continue this discussion in a more relevant place though, please advise,
> Cheers
> /dan
> 


Dan,

The TupleType error was pretty common in the pre-release package of
DenyHost v3.0 (available on gitHub), but I think it had been fixed in
the final 3.0 release which is available through the website.

Jesse