Re: [Fail2ban-users] File option must be 'head' or 'tail' error

[Alex <mys...@gm...>]

Hi,

>>> When specifying multiple log files they should be new line delimited not
>>> space delimited. It's taking
>>> the second file as the head/tail option of the first. Check out the
>>> jail.conf(5) man page.
>>
>>
>> That appears to have fixed it. It's broken out of the box in fedora20.
>>
> Hmm, really?  The fail2ban-0.9-2.fc20 package should have (trimmed):
>
> [apache-badbots]
> logpath  = %(apache_access_log)s
>
> [apache-noscript]
> logpath  = %(apache_error_log)s
>
> which is just as upstream.  The only modification in this area made by the
> Fedora package is to set:
>
> before = paths-fedora.conf

The change was in the paths-fedora.conf file. It had listed multiple
log files on the same line.

Thanks,
Alex