Hi Anders, No, fail2ban doens't try every locale possible... you must have en_DK setup somewhere... can you grep for it in your environment and simply in /etc/ to figure it out?
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Anders Breindahl wrote:
> Package: fail2ban
> Version: 0.6.1-3
> Severity: normal
> When a more-or-less unconfigured fail2ban installation is started on this
> system, it fails to set up its rules, while
> putting this in its log:
> 2006-05-31 12:06:48,705 WARNING: Verbose level is 1
> 2006-05-31 12:06:48,732 INFO: Fail2Ban v0.6.1 is running
> 2006-05-31 12:06:48,739 INFO: Enabled sections: ['SSH']
> 2006-05-31 12:06:48,740 WARNING: is not a valid IP address
> 2006-05-31 12:06:48,895 ERROR: unknown locale: en_DK
> 2006-05-31 12:06:48,896 ERROR: Please check the format and your locale
> settings.
> 2006-05-31 12:06:48,973 ERROR: Fail2Ban got an unhandled exception and died.
> 2006-05-31 12:06:48,973 ERROR: Type: 'AttributeError'
> Value: ('strptime',)
> TB: [('/usr/bin/fail2ban', 55, '?', 'fail2ban.main()'),
> ('/usr/share/fail2ban/fail2ban.py', 513, 'main', 'e =
> element[1].getFailures()'), ('/usr/share/fail2ban/logreader/logreader.py',
> 143, 'getFailures', 'for element in
> self.findFailure(line):'), ('/usr/share/fail2ban/logreader/logreader.py',
> 174, 'findFailure', 'date =
> self.getUnixTime(timeMatch.group())'),
> ('/usr/share/fail2ban/logreader/logreader.py', 216, 'getUnixTime', 'date =
> list(time.strptime(value, self.timepattern))')]
> 2006-05-31 12:06:48,996 WARNING: Restoring firewall rules...
> Apparently fail2ban wants to know every locale out thereц, before trying
> anything with it?
> This bug is somewhat related to #363391, as the remedy is somewhat similar:
> # killall fail2ban
> # LANG=en_US fail2ban
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
> Locale: LANG=en_DK, LC_CTYPE=en_DK (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> Versions of packages fail2ban depends on:
> ii iptables 1.3.3-2 Linux kernel 2.4+ iptables
> adminis
> ii lsb-base 3.1-5 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init
> scrip
> ii python 2.3.5-5 An interactive high-level
> object-o
> fail2ban recommends no packages.
> -- no debconf information
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