How to automatically populate hosts.deny file

[alan]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, James Marcinek wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm running RHEL 4 and I'm trying to get some input on how people automate 
> populating the /etc/hosts.deny file? I currently use logwatch and manually 
> add the entry but would like some way to pro-actively act. Any tools daemons, 
> scripts to help achieve this? I am using IPtables as a firewall

Look at an app in extras called "denyhosts".

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