Looks a bit like a problem with systemd. You did a restart, therefore fail2ban was running previously. What is the status of f2b after your restart? [..]# fail2ban-client status
You should be using systemctl not service to control services on a system running systemd. I presume you are running Fedora? Are you also running SELINUX? What does the fail2ban log say? On Tue, 2014-10-21 at 00:33 +0000, Steven Jones wrote: > Hi, > > > I am attempting to setup fail2ban to protect ssh. > > > So I copied jail.conf to jail.local and edited the file, however > fail2ban will now not run. > > > :( > > > ======== > > [root@vuwuniconnect01 fail2ban]# service fail2ban restart > Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart fail2ban.service > Job for fail2ban.service failed. See 'systemctl status > fail2ban.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. > [root@vuwuniconnect01 fail2ban]# journalctl -xn > -- Logs begin at Mon 2014-10-20 13:46:33 NZDT, end at Tue 2014-10-21 > 13:22:18 NZDT. -- > Oct 21 13:22:18 vuwuniconnect01.ods.vuw.ac.nz fail2ban-client[5071]: ' > enabled = true\n' > Oct 21 13:22:18 vuwuniconnect01.ods.vuw.ac.nz systemd[1]: > fail2ban.service: control process exited, code=exited status=255 > Oct 21 13:22:18 vuwuniconnect01.ods.vuw.ac.nz systemd[1]: Failed to > start Fail2ban Service. > -- Subject: Unit fail2ban.service has failed > -- Defined-By: systemd > -- Support: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel > -- > -- Unit fail2ban.service has failed. > -- > -- The result is failed. > Oct 21 13:22:18 vuwuniconnect01.ods.vuw.ac.nz systemd[1]: Unit > fail2ban.service entered failed state. > Oct 21 13:22:18 vuwuniconnect01.ods.vuw.ac.nz systemd[1]: > fail2ban.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. > Oct 21 13:22:18 vuwuniconnect01.ods.vuw.ac.nz systemd[1]: Stopping > Fail2ban Service... > -- Subject: Unit fail2ban.service has begun shutting down > -- Defined-By: systemd > -- Support: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel > -- > -- Unit fail2ban.service has begun shutting down. > Oct 21 13:22:18 vuwuniconnect01.ods.vuw.ac.nz systemd[1]: Starting > Fail2ban Service... > -- Subject: Unit fail2ban.service has begun with start-up > -- Defined-By: systemd > -- Support: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel > -- > -- Unit fail2ban.service has begun starting up. > Oct 21 13:22:18 vuwuniconnect01.ods.vuw.ac.nz systemd[1]: > fail2ban.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to > start. > Oct 21 13:22:18 vuwuniconnect01.ods.vuw.ac.nz systemd[1]: Failed to > start Fail2ban Service. > -- Subject: Unit fail2ban.service has failed > -- Defined-By: systemd > -- Support: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. > Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. > Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. > Take corrective actions from your mobile device. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho > _______________________________________________ Fail2ban-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Fail2ban-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users
