Installing Denyhosts on CentOS

At first download an rpm

wget http://centos.karan.org/el4/extras/stable/i386/RPMS/denyhosts-2.5-1.el4.kb.noarch.rpm

Then
rpm -i denyhosts-2.5-1.el4.kb.noarch.rpm

chkconfig denyhosts on

modify /etc/denyhosts.conf as per your requirements

and then

service denyhosts start

This is it you’re done however its not always that easy some time you can get an error like

root@fastnu [~]# service denyhosts start
starting DenyHosts: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/denyhosts.py –daemon –config=/etc/denyhosts.conf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/denyhosts.py”, line 5, in ?
import DenyHosts.python_version
ImportError: No module named DenyHosts.python_version

Eewww there is a patch of it available at

here

What you need to do is to change /usr/bin/denyhosts and make it

#!/usr/bin/env python2.4

then service denyhosts start
However if this still doesnt work then you might have multiple version of python installed
over your machine “Thats what happened with me :p”

Go into cd /usr/lib/
then
root@fastnu [/usr/lib]# ls -la | grep python
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Mar 18 10:11 libpython2.4.so -> libpython2.4.so.1.0*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1136208 Mar 14 2007 libpython2.4.so.1.0*
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 9 09:37 python2.3/
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 20480 Mar 18 06:30 python2.4/
root@fastnu [/usr/lib]#

I see python2.3 and python2.4 and when and in python2.3 site-packages directory i can see
Denyhosts package so what i did was to move it from python2.3/site-packages/Denyhosts to
python2.4/site-packages/Denyhosts

and did service denyhosts start

starting DenyHosts: /usr/bin/python2.4 /usr/bin/denyhosts.py –daemon –config=/etc/denyhosts.conf

This is it all good !

~ by azimyasin on May 9, 2008.