Re: [Fail2ban-users] Spontaneous restart

[Ken S. <ke...@ke...>]

Fabian Wenk wrote:
> Hello Ken
>
> On 17.12.2012 15:13, Ken Smith wrote:
>    
>> I received an e-mail from fail2ban early this morning (04:39) saying
>> that the service has restarted. The same message you get when you
>> manually restart the service. There is nothing in any of the cron jobs
>> that I can find that would do this and no-one was logged in to the machine.
>>      
> I do not know the details about CentOS, but is eventually
> logrotate restarting fail2ban, because it has rotated the log
> file? E.g. did the fail2ban package install a config file in the
> logrotate.d directory?
>
>
> bye
> Fabian
>
>
>    
Hi Fabian,

Yes there is a fail2ban file in logrotate.d. I guess that's part of the 
Centos build.

I'm happy that is the cause.

Many thanks

Ken

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