On 29.03.2015 18:53, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 23:22 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> Hi >> >> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> >>> If denyhosts needs rsyslogd, shouldn't it be a dependency? >> >> >> It doesn't need rsyslogd specifically. A virtual dependency on syslog with >> multiple providers including rsyslogd and syslog-ng might be a possible >> solution. However denyhosts itself is pretty outdated and everyone should >> switch over to fail2ban anyway. > > I just did so, but I found fail2ban significantly harder to configure, > largely because there's no explicit documentation on what the default > configuration is on install. You have to read the config files and > figure it out from the man pages, which suffer from the same fault as > many such pages, i.e. they are written for people who already know how > it all works and just need a reminder. One example: the term 'jail' is > used without ever being defined, and in a way inconsistent with other > uses in Linux such as 'root jail'. > > In the end I just had to add a simple jail.local file, but it took a > while to discover that. > > Denyhosts was much easier IIRC. > > poc > Once you're done, make the instructions in the form of a examples, put it in a patch and send upstream. If upstream doesn't pull propose to downstream. If downstream doesn't pull, make a note here on the list. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
