A little problem with a demon

[darose-prQxUZoa2zOsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org (David Rosenstrauch)]

On 03/09/2010 05:30 PM, Franco castro wrote:
> Hi guys, I have a some servers running linux, also I have instelled on them
> "deny hosts" wich is a tool to prevent brute force atacks, but it stop
> working 3 or 4 times per month, when I saw my statics is obviosly knowed
> that deny hosts have stop working, I can see around 8k invalid user login
> atempts, I'm thinking in ad a crontab line to delete the file lock, and
> start denyhosts every 6 hours, but it's probably not the best choice, may be
> anyone of you know some kind of program how make sure the program still
> runing or something like that, tnks :D

I use Nagios to notify me if denyhosts crashes on any of our boxes.

HTH,

DR