Re: [Fail2ban-users] Problems installing / running fail2ban

[Peter C. N. <spa...@le...>]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:58:09AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> I just subscribed to this list and because you didn't report the "bug" to
> the Debian BTS, I didn't see your report before.
> 
> And it is not a bug really, but more of a wish because it just doesn't
> work for your introduced section.
> 
> As the answer: did you try
> failregex = 550 User unknown
> instead of your
> failregex = 550 User Unknown
> ? 
> :-)))

Thanks, that's what I get for thinking I did a literal cut-n-paste.
 
> In the other words: check all your regexps manually in python on a
> target string. This way you make sure that whatever "bug" is really a
> bug :-)

I would have, but I was out chasing butterflies or some other form of
harmless bugs that aren't.
 
> P.S. If it works -- could you please wrap your config for courier
> consistently with the rest of the config (not that I like duplicating
> comment lines, but just to be consistent) and submit it to the list or
> to debian BTS. Then me (or Cyril) will include it in some upcoming
> release :-) Thank you in advance

Will do.

Thanks,

-Peter

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