#4925 Fail2Ban Intrusion Detector Status

[M.T.R]

Hi Jamie,

the webmin Fail2Ban Intrusion Detector does not reflect the status of fail2ban.

if i stop fail2ban (server and client) i see still the buttons as if fail2ban would be running.
say:
restart fail2ban server
stop fail2ban server.

in fact i find no button for start.
this works only if fail2ban has been stopped by the webmin module.

also, why not display the fail2ban server status in webmin/others/system and server status,
like the other servers?

this would be very helpful indeed.

thanks for assistance

cheers

[Jamie Cameron]

What commands are you using to stop or start fail2ban ?

[M.T.R]

Hi Jamie,

for start/stop of the server :
/etc/init.d/fail2ban start
/etc/init.d/fail2ban stop

for start/stop of the client:
/usr/bin/fail2ban-client start
/usr/bin/fail2ban-client stop

for server status:
/etc/init.d/fail2ban status

for client status:
/usr/bin/fail2ban-client status
or
/usr/bin/fail2ban-client ping

Cheers

[Jamie Cameron]

Oh, there's a separate fail2ban client and server now? Webmin doesn't support that yet.

Which version are you running there, and how was it installed?

[M.T.R]

Hi Jamie,

this is version fail2ban_0.8.13
and was installed from fail2ban_0.8.13.orig.tar from their site.

If you need more details just let me know.

Cheers

[Jamie Cameron]

Ok, the real issue here is that webmin doesn't support multiple fail2ban bootup scripts. I'll fix this in the next release.

[M.T.R]

Great, thanks lot.

Cheer mike