Re: [SSHGuard-users] sshguard restart loop when using syslogd

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

Hi Jef,

On 05/09/2016 12:19, Jef Poskanzer wrote:
> After a reminder that portsnap exists, I updated everything and
> tried again with sshguard 1.6.4. I undid my syslog config quick-fix
> to test, and can confirm that the restart looping still happens
> although with different log messages:
> 
> May  9 11:57:02 hydra sshguard[22878]: Monitoring attacks from stdin
> May  9 12:00:00 hydra sshguard[22878]: Received EOF from stdin
> May  9 12:00:00 hydra sshguard[22878]: Exiting on signal
> May  9 12:00:00 hydra sshguard[28419]: Monitoring attacks from stdin
> 
> Looks like the exit message is now logged at level info instead
> of notice, but that is still high enough to get caught by the
> recommended syslog.conf line. And anyway the new 'Received EOF'
> message is at level notice.

Thanks for updating to 1.6.4. Could you try starting SSHGuard as a
daemon using the rc.d script and see if the problem persists?

Thanks,
Kevin

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