I don't have an ip.deny file. Second, I see: sshd: x.x.x.x and some more garble. I don't think iptables would parse that very well, which was why I wanted to go through a loop and do it. Thanks, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Travis Siegel" <tsiegel@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 5:06 PM Subject: Re: shell script request? possibly? > If you want them in a file, why not just use the ip_deny file itself? > Why do you need to put them in a different file? > > > On May 19, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > > > 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~~ > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
