Re: [Sshguard-users] sshguard on OpenBSD 4.8

[Mij <mi...@ss...>]

Ciao Pietro,

On Apr 27, 2011, at 23:25 , Pietro Leone wrote:

> I do not understand how logsucker works, if I do not provide any log files 
> throught "-l" option ssh work with defaults log files?

No, it defaults to standard input.


> I tried launching sshguard in rc.local:
> 
> /usr/local/sbin/sshguard -l /var/log/authlog -l /var/log/secure
> 
> How can I be sure that sshguard is working?

SSHGuard logs some messages at start-up, you can grep your logs e.g. for
"Started successfully". They are all LOG_AUTH facility, which syslog typically
sends to /var/log/auth*


> But sshguard does not block any address.
> 
> How can I do?

For further details see http://www.sshguard.net/docs/faqs/#does-not-work .