From: Tony C. <to...@ev...> - 2012-12-18 09:52:57
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Hi everyone Having had a minor disaster with our ISP, we I had to rebuild my server from scratch. I'm a Centos user, and using Yum I've been stuck behind the officil Fail2ban releases because there are no up-to-date Yum packages. But yesterday I took advantage of the chance to simply install 0.8.8 properly, following the instructions. I had to use Yum to install several dependencies (such as a compiler!) but it all seemed to go ok. However, the thing just won't start. I copied the redhat init into /etc/init/d/rc.d and set it to run on level 3. But any attempt to start the service gives me a "failed" response. Nothing in the log, nothing anywhere - so I don't even know where I should start looking. Could you guys give me some basic Fail2ban troubleshooting guidance please? I'm pretty good at going through this stuff logically, but a blanket "failure" doesn't help at all. For all I know, it might be nothing to do with Fail2ban and all to do with file permissions somewhere! I'd appreciate any help you can give. Tony Collins |
From: Fabian W. <fa...@we...> - 2012-12-21 14:50:10
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Hello Tony On 18.12.2012 10:46, Tony Collins wrote: > But any attempt to start the service gives me a "failed" response. Nothing > in the log, nothing anywhere - so I don't even know where I should start > looking. You could try to start it with this, so it will give you detailed output what the init script is doing and hopefully point you to where it fails: sh -x /etc/init.d/fail2ban start bye Fabian |