Bug 1261567

Summary:	denyhosts.py[757]: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/secure'
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot>
Component:	denyhosts	Assignee:	Jason Tibbitts <j>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2015-09-09 17:17:41 UTC

systemctl status denyhosts
● denyhosts.service - SSH log watcher
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/denyhosts.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since mar. 2015-09-08 21:53:44 CEST; 21h ago
 Main PID: 757 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

sept. 08 21:53:44 arekh.localdomain systemd[1]: Started SSH log watcher.
sept. 08 21:53:44 arekh.localdomain denyhosts.py[757]: Can't read: /var/log/secure
sept. 08 21:53:44 arekh.localdomain denyhosts.py[757]: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/secure'
sept. 08 21:53:44 arekh.localdomain denyhosts.py[757]: Error deleting DenyHosts lock file: /var/lock/subsys/denyhosts
sept. 08 21:53:44 arekh.localdomain denyhosts.py[757]: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lock/subsys/denyhosts'
sept. 08 21:53:44 arekh.localdomain systemd[1]: denyhosts.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
sept. 08 21:53:44 arekh.localdomain systemd[1]: denyhosts.service: Unit entered failed state.
sept. 08 21:53:44 arekh.localdomain systemd[1]: denyhosts.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

denyhosts-2.10-6.fc23.noarch

Comment 1 Jason Tibbitts 2015-09-09 17:39:55 UTC

Well, you don't have /var/log/secure.  Not sure what you would expect denyhosts to do in the case where it has no file to read.

You will need to install and configure a syslog daemon as indicated in the documentation (README.fedora).

Comment 2 Nicolas Mailhot 2015-09-09 18:10:13 UTC

I'd expect denyhosts to declare its deps now they are no longer part of the Fedora base set

Comment 3 Jason Tibbitts 2015-09-09 19:16:45 UTC

You might, except that it's not possible to know which syslog daemon you would want or how to set it up.  And it won't be enabled in any case so you'd still get the same error.  Better to have proper documentation (which is there) as it's not a zero-configuration system.

Future releases may read from the journal if I can figure out how to make things work in a stable fashion.