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+#!/bin/sh
+# Plugin to monitor the number of hosts denied by BlockHosts
+#
+# $Log$
+# based on: 
+# denyhosts plugin
+# Revision 1.0  2009/06/05 16:00:00 tjansson
+#
+# Modified by d.becker 2010/02/04
+#
+# Parameters:
+#       config   (required)
+#       autoconf (optional - used by munin-config)
+ 
+LOG=/etc/hosts.allow
+
+if [ "$1" = "autoconf" ]; then
+        if [ -r "$LOG" ]; then
+                echo yes
+                exit 0
+        else
+                echo no
+                exit 1
+        fi
+fi
+ 
+if [ "$1" = "config" ]; then
+ 
+        echo 'graph_title Hosts denied by BlockHosts'
+        echo 'graph_args -l 0'
+        echo 'graph_vlabel denied hosts '
+        echo 'graph_category system'
+        echo 'HostsDenied.label Hosts denied by BlockHosts'
+        echo 'HostsWatched.label Hosts watched by BlockHosts'
+	exit 0
+fi
+ 
+echo HostsDenied.value  `egrep -c " : deny" $LOG`
+echo HostsWatched.value `egrep -c "#bh: ip:" $LOG`