[ { type: install message: <<EOM Configuration of the bruteblock is done via configuration files located at %%PREFIX%%/etc/bruteblock. To run the script, append following lines to /etc/syslog.conf: !* auth.info;authpriv.info |exec %%PREFIX%%/sbin/bruteblock -f %%PREFIX%%/etc/bruteblock/ssh.conf and restart syslogd. Also you should add ipfw2 table and the corresponding deny rule. For example, ipfw add deny ip from table(1) to any Next, you'll want to setup periodical cleanup of ipfw2 table. Add following lines to /etc/rc.conf: bruteblockd_enable="YES" bruteblockd_table="1" bruteblockd_flags="-s 5" and start bruteblockd: service bruteblockd start See bruteblock(8) for more details. EOM } ]