[Fail2ban-users] Fail2ban hangs after log rotation

[Ali G. <ag...@gm...>]

Hello All,
I'm running fail2ban version 0.8.4-27 on fedora core 15. Occasionally my
fail2ban stops banning. A start-stop of the fail2ban service brings things
back to normal. There seems to be a 1-to-1 relationship between the hangs
and log rotations. For example every time there is message like
"fail2ban.filter : INFO   Log rotation detected for
/var/log/httpd/error_log" in my /var/messages, banning stops.
I have a single active jail that monitors the apache-log and the hangs were
not happening before I added that rule. Here is its entry in jail.conf

[apache-badpage]



enabled  =
true

filter   =
apache-bad-page

action   = iptables-multiport[name=badpage, port="http",
protocol=tcp]
           sendmail-whois[name=badpage, dest=root,
sender=fail2ban@neptune.localdomain]
logpath  =
/var/log/httpd/error_log

maxretry =
5

findtime  =
60

bantime  = 600

and the filter is:
[Definition]



# Option:
failregex

# Notes.:  regex to match failures to find a home directory on a server,
which
#          became popular last days. Most often attacker just uses IP
instead of
#          domain name -- so expect to see them in generic error.log if you
have
#          per-domain log
files.

# Values:
TEXT

#

failregex = [[]client <HOST>[]] File does not
exist:


# Option:
ignoreregex

# Notes.:  regex to ignore. If this regex matches, the line is
ignored.
# Values:
TEXT

#

ignoreregex =


Any ideas as to what may be the problem?
Thanks

-- 
-Ali
http://home.pcisys.net/~aghorash/