I installed portsentry and am using it with shorewall. I followed the HOWTO posted here, and I have it working together, I have gotten about 4 emails saying such IP is blocked for 5 days. However, in the /etc/portsentry dir, the only files in there are: portsentry.conf portsentry.ignore portsentry.temp.block There are no files that should be there like: portsentry.history portsentry.block - istn''t this what i need to actually block the ip''s? Anyone have any ideas why these files aren''t there? Can I make them? I don''t know why they didn''t get created when I installed PortSentry? It seems to be working well with shorewall, thanks for the HOWTO! Thanks, Bryan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com