Re: [SSHGuard-users] configure-script does not honour --libexecprefix

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

On 9/18/18 5:57 AM, Christopher Engelhard wrote:
> I'm trying to install sshguard to a non-standard location and stumbled
> upon the following problem: When setting the location using ./configure
> --prefix=<location>, sshguard installs to the specified path, but when
> executed looks for the sshg-...-binaries in /usr/local/libexec
> nonetheless. The same happens when the various paths are specified
> individually via --libexecdir=... etc. This appears to exclusively
> affect libexecdir, not e.g. sysconfdir.
> 
> Running sshguard-2.2.0 on Fedora Server 28
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1) Run ./configure --prefix=/opt && make && make install
> 2) copy example config file to /opt/etc/sshguard.conf and set backend
> 3) execute /opt/sbin/sshguard
> 
> SSHGuard will fail with the following error:
> "sshguard: '/usr/local/libexec/sshg-fw-iptables' is not executable"

Could you show your sshguard.conf?

I suspect what happened here is that you uncommented the default BACKEND
without changing it.

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Kevin Zheng
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