Can DenyHosts be run as a daemon (background) process?
DenyHosts v0.9.0 (and greater) introduces daemon support. When launched with the –daemon flag, DenyHosts will run in the background and constantly monitor your SECURE_LOG for new activity: $ denyhosts.py –daemon Note: The following command line flags are ignored when –daemon is used: –file, –verbose, –migrate, –purge Note: The daemon mode must be invoked as superuser (root) There are 3 optional configuration settings specific to daemon mode. You can refer to the included denhosts.cfg-dist file for sample usage. These new values are: • DAEMON_LOG: specifices the path to which DenyHosts should record activity. The default is /var/log/denyhosts • DAEMON_SLEEP: the amount of time that DenyHosts will pause between checking for new activity in your SECURE_LOG. The default is 30s • DAEMON_PURGE: the amount of time that DenyHosts should attempt to purge historical entries from your HOSTS_DENY file. If left blank, purging will be disabled. The default is 1h For your convenience there is
