Re: [SSHGuard-users] Is blacklist permanent? If so move ip addresses to /etc/hosts.deny?

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

On 2021/03/17 02:08, Kevin Zheng wrote:
>
> SSHGuard remembers the addresses that are blocked permanently by adding
> them to the blacklist file, which is written to when an address is
> blacklisted and loaded every time SSHGuard stops.
>
> I'll clear up the man page a bit.

Surely "loaded every time SSHGuard starts": not stops ?

Actually writing to point out that one of the "nice" things about
that behaviour is that it affords one the opportunity to combine
entries from multiple blacklist files ahead of a restart on any
given host running SSHGuard.

HTH,
Kevin