[SLL] DenyHosts installation on Fedora Legacy

[Randolph Bentson]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:00:20AM -0800, Paul Franz wrote:
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> Downloaded DenyHosts 2.6 source rpm, built and successfully installed the rpm.
> Followed the configuration instructions. Starting was unsuccessful as it announced it
> needed Python 2.3 or newer and suggested installing the most recent version of Python.
> There is no more current rpm available for Fedora Core (Legacy) so I downloaded the
> source tarball for Python 3.1 ....

The "most recent" advice may not be literally the best way to go.
Python 3 has some (mostly subtle) changes in syntax from even the
late Python 2 versions. I suspect that you'll have better results
if you install Python 2.6.1.

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Randolph Bentson
bentson at holmsjoen.com