> Sorry for asking the obvious - what is the output from: > - /sbin/service denyhosts status DenyHosts is running with pid = 25005 > - /sbin/chkconfig --list denyhosts denyhosts 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:off 6:off > You could also try to reset the configuration by copying > /usr/share/doc/denyhosts-2.6/denyhosts.cfg-dist to > /etc/denyhosts/denyhosts.cfg (don't forget to backup your configuration). Yes i did that many times, nothing was caught Thanks