hello list, Could I possibly bauther someone to tell me how to do this? I have little to no experience with ssh scripting at all. My idea is this: I want to take the ip addresses from /etc/hosts.deny and put them in a file, or just do the following: iptables -A INPUT -s x.x.x.x -j DROP where x.x.x.x would be the IP found in the hosts.deny file. I have a or will have a script in init.d that will add all the rules to iptables when it starts, so the script can be executed. Any help with this would be appriciated. Thanks, ~~TheCreator~~