Topic: Denyhosts for SME

[smeerbartje]

I am very happy with the Denyhosts tool. The wiki page provides a lot of information about installing/maintaining denyhosts. But there is one thing I miss: I want to disable the sending of emails when a host has been blocked.

The wiki page only provides information about changing the email address, but not about disabling emailing. Can anyone tell me how to disable those emails?

[yythoss]

Edit the config file from denyhosts:

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/etc/denyhosts.conf
change the line:

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ADMIN_EMAIL = admin@localhost
to

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ADMIN_EMAIL =
yythoss

[smeerbartje]

Thanks, it's not that when I insert NULL as email address, the smtp server still will be requested to send an email? In other words: it is not necessary to set a parameter like "send admin mail" to false or something?

[yythoss]

I have this information from the Homepage of Denyhosts.

yythoss

[smeerbartje]

I have this information from the Homepage of Denyhosts.

yythoss

Again, thanks!

[smeerbartje]

After changing the config file (/etc/denyhosts.conf) indeed the emails stopped. But after rebooting the server, it all started over again. What can I do to make it permanent?

[David Harper]

Although I haven't checked, the file referenced is probably populated from a template - so you would need to create a custom template that eliminated this value.