Hi,

the socket fifo works for me but using in init scipt:

tail -n +1 -f /var/run/fail2ban.com.sock | sh

to force tail to read from the beginning (not only the last 10 lines),
I have several jails and a very slow router.

thanks,
Isaias.

>Rain (aka linuxoid.rain) in private communication did some "research"
>and implemented it via a feeding iptables command to FIFO socket for execution
>by a little listener on the other end.  Something like
>
># in init script
>mkfifo -m 600 /var/run/fail2ban.com.sock
>tail -f /var/run/fail2ban.com.sock | sh
>
># in action scripts
>echo "command" > /var/run/fail2ban.com.sock
>
>I am attaching his resultant init.d file and the iptables action configuration
>for it.  It would be great if someone could verify its functioning with stock
>(without sleeps) fail2ban.



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