Re: [Fail2ban-users] suggestion and configuration problems

[Steven H. <ste...@hi...>]

On 8 April 2014 04:47:59 BST, "Littlefield, Tyler" <ty...@ty...> wrote:
>hello all:
>I spent the last 2 hours trying to figure out why fail2ban would not 
>start. I realized that the init script in debian stable fails, but 
>calling fail2ban-server manually lets it run. I also was not presented 
>with either a warning or an error when I tried to run this. Removing 
>this jail.local seems to have fixed it however--I'd like to know if 
>there's something wrong with it.
>The idea is to ban -everything- if a failed attempt is made on ssh, 
>dovecot or postfix more than twice.
>Thanks,

The init script should be calling fail2ban-client which starts fail2ban-server and processes the configuration files. Try running `fail2ban-client start` and you should be getting error messages if there is a configuration issue.
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Steven Hiscocks