Re: [Fail2ban-users] Warning error in 0.8.6 - WARNING 'action' not defined in 'php-url-fopen' and 'lighttpd-fastcgi'

[Yaroslav H. <li...@on...>]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Lee Clemens wrote:
> why it wasn't given an action by default. The common services seem to
> have at least one or two of each (SSH, etc)...but fail2ban certainly
> requires configuration out-of-the-box (OTB it offers absolutely no
> protection)...

just for completeness -- fail2ban on Debian systems enables ssh by
default.

There was a related wishlist
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=407404
fail2ban: automatic enable for sections if log files exist

which might be worth considering/discussing for better OTB operation
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