Re: [Fail2ban-users] Iptables error

[Arthur D. <mis...@bl...>]

On Sat, 2014-06-07 at 14:30 +0200, Tom Hendrikx wrote:

> > Any ideas?
> > 
> 
> It seems that f2b failed to setup the iptables chain for the modsec
> jail (i.e. the 'actionstart' commands in iptables.conf). The output of
> f2b should be visible in your logs at the last (re)start time of f2b.
> Restarting f2b to see if it consistently fails creating this chain
> could be easy.
> 
> I've seen issues with this is the past too, but I don't know if a real
> solution was discovered/implemented. In my observations back then, the
> chain creation failed rather randomly. :/
> 
> Tom

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the help. I tried to untangle what was in the log file back
when I last re-started F2B, but in the end I just gave up and re-started
it again.

It seems that all the jails have now re-started cleanly and and I am
keeping an eye on the log (and iptables) for the next event, to check
that it is all working. Fingers crossed!

Thanks again - much appreciated.

Mark