Re: [Sshguard-users] Blacklist database corruption

[Kevin Z. <kev...@gm...>]

On 03/05/2015 08:11, Mark Felder wrote:
> The blacklist database gets corrupted sometimes. I'm now the maintainer
> of sshguard on FreeBSD and I've seen several reports -- including
> encountering it myself a few times. The result is that sshguard will
> crash on start which is inconvenient to say the least.
> 
> The HardenedBSD folk have run into this too and Oliver Pinter wrote a
> shell script[1] to fix the sshguard blacklist database. Could this be
> converted into native code and handled at startup to sanitize the
> database before crashing?

The blacklist file for 1.6.0 (available now from Git) should now be
human-readable. I haven't been able to test this a whole lot, but I
don't think this should happen anymore.

Thanks,
Kevin Zheng

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