sshguard init script is broken, the package works but it needs the init script completely reworked. --background flag must be removed, and /var/log/auth.log does not exist. its parent website claims support for metalog and syslog-ng, neither produced said file, upstreams configs reference this file also. it fails to /etc/init.d/sshguard start out of the box.............
This package could use a note telling people that it won't start until they set a proper log path, but I don't know that any more action than that is needed. Many people do have their logger configured to produce /var/log/auth.log, some of the syslog-ng examples still reference this file. See /usr/share/doc/syslog-ng-*/syslog-ng.conf.doc.bz2 for example. There is no preset log path that's going to work for everyone, I think it just needs to be made clear that user action is absolutely required here.
(In reply to three sixes from comment #0) > sshguard init script is broken, the package works but it needs the init > script completely reworked. --background flag must be removed Why this change is needed? Can you explain? (In reply to three sixes from comment #0) > /var/log/auth.log does not exist. It is one of the default log files when you using sysklogd or syslog-ng(not sure about metalog though). So, possibly, this is problem in your configuration.
