[Fail2ban-users] running from RPM on RHES 2.1

[Andrew S. <an...@sw...>]

I have successfully installed fail2ban from the latest RPM available
(0.5.2) onto Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 2.1 (Panama). I get the
following error when attempting to start it with:

# /etc/init.d/fail2ban start
Starting fail2ban: Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/fail2ban", line 29, in ?
    import sys, traceback, logging
ImportError: No module named logging

I'm not much of a python person. Could there be some critical python
package I'm missing? The installation did not complain about any missing
dependencies. I have the following python-ish packages installed:

# rpm -qa | grep -i python
python-xmlrpc-1.5.1-7.x.3
python-devel-2.2.1-17
python-popt-0.8.8-7.x.2
rpm-python-4.0.4-7x.20
mod_python-2.7.8-3.1
python-1.5.2-43.72
python-devel-1.5.2-43.72

I also tried building the package from the SRPMS, but that was just a
world of hurt (must be missing even more python build things).

-- 
Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several
                                things can go wrong at once.