The info warning is I hate to say normal on Fedora 20, but I always had
it lsof shows 112 entries on my machine right now. When you run iptables
-L as root what does your rules look like. And I will look in my
archives and see if I still have copies of my fail2ban set up for Fedora
20 which I will send you if you want to take a look at them.


On Mon, 2015-08-24 at 14:34 -0500, Michael Schwager wrote:
> It appears that there's some strange interaction between fail2ban and
> systemd. Thanks for the link but it talks about having a lot of files
> open. I'm wondering about why fail2ban would need to open them in the
> first place. ...Is the Fedora RPM broken?This is what's strange: I
> have a simple VM, running Fedora 20, and by simple I mean that it is
> running httpd and sshd only. And it's a sleepy little computer, very
> little going on with it (outside of the usual ssh root login attempts
> by hackers).
> netstat shows that there is only a single connection- me, via ssh. The
> error happens immediately upon start of fail2ban.
> 
> 
> So I do not have a lot of concurrent connections, nor am I running
> something that opens a lot of files but never closes them- except
> fail2ban itself. lsof shows A TON of files opened by fail2ban
> in /var/log/journal:
> 
> 
> fail2ban- 19511 19633      root  737r      REG              252,1
> 109051904
>  20638 
> /var/log/journal/11264912be38456483e63dfd21d402f4/system@f724c4fcb41c4dd09c9b814c3e159287-000000000049dceb-00051c23d11febc7.journal
> fail2ban- 19511 19633      root  738r      REG              252,1
> 100663296
>  20639 
> /var/log/journal/11264912be38456483e63dfd21d402f4/system@f724c4fcb41c4dd09c9b814c3e159287-000000000044db14-00051b85f6029c2c.journal
> fail2ban- 19511 19633      root  739r      REG              252,1
> 100663296
>  20611 
> /var/log/journal/11264912be38456483e63dfd21d402f4/system@c429c1a6e1044dd79b5d5e3089276833-0000000000715351-00051a2daf9bb2b7.journal
> 
> 
> If I run fail2ban by itself without using systemd, it seems to start
> fine:
> 
> 
> /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/fail2ban-server -b
> -s /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock -p /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid
> -x
> 
> 
> If I removed files from /etc/fail2ban/filter.d I got some strange
> regular expression error. I just tried it again, and moved all files
> but sshd.conf and sshd-ddos.conf. It started without any messages
> to /var/log/fail2ban.log but this is what happens when I test:
> 
> 
> # fail2ban-client -d
> WARNING Wrong value for 'loglevel' in 'Definition'. Using default one:
> ''INFO''
> 
> ERROR  Failed during configuration: Bad value substitution:
>         section: [Definition]
>         option : failregex
>         key    : __prefix_line
>         rawval : (?:error: PAM: )?[aA]uthentication (?:failure|error)
> for .* from <HOST>( via \S+)?\s*$
> 
> 
> ...It seems to work fine when all the files are left in place under
> filter.d.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Harrison Johnson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>         You can remove files that are not being used in the filter.d
>         and action.d directories I have done this to reduce the
>         "noise" when I ls from a terminal the error is really the OS
>         telling you that too many file are already open and it can't
>         open another one. There are more reasons for this than you can
>         shake a stick at to use a favorite phrase of my great grand
>         mother. The first question I would have are you running a
>         server that has a lot of concurrent connections? The second
>         question is are you running a server or application that opens
>         a lot of files but never closes them? The third question is
>         are you using iptables as you firewall?
>             Here is a quick thread on the open file limit subject:
>         
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18280612/ioerror-errno-24-too-many-open-files
>         
>         
>         
>         On Mon, 2015-08-24 at 13:16 -0500, Michael Schwager wrote: 
>         
>         > Yes.  
>         > 
>         > 
>         > systemd-208-26.fc20.x86_64
>         > systemd-libs-208-26.fc20.x86_64
>         > systemd-python-208-26.fc20.x86_64
>         > 
>         > 
>         > 
>         > On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Harrison Johnson
>         > <[email protected]> wrote:
>         > 
>         >         Did you install the systemd package? 
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         On Mon, 2015-08-24 at 08:57 -0500, Michael Schwager
>         >         wrote: 
>         >         
>         >         > Hello,
>         >         > I have fail2ban 0.9 on Fedora 20. I notice in my
>         >         > log files that when I start fail2ban I get the
>         >         > following error messages. I think maybe it's
>         >         > because the /etc/fail2ban/filters.d directory has
>         >         > too much stuff in it...? But if I try to move
>         >         > things out of there I get some errors about the
>         >         > regex's. Or do I need to set ulimit? Any advice
>         >         > would be appreciated. I'll include my
>         >         > fail2ban.conf file after the following errors.
>         >         > 
>         >         > 
>         >         > I notice there's a whole lot of stuff in jail.conf
>         >         > that I don't need, but it says specifically to not
>         >         > edit it so I have not.
>         >         > 
>         >         > 
>         >         > Here are the errors:
>         >         > 
>         >         > 
>         >         > 2015-08-24 08:42:49,660
>         >         > fail2ban.server.jail[19511]: INFO    Initiated
>         >         > 'systemd' backend
>         >         > 2015-08-24 08:42:49,663
>         >         > fail2ban.server.filter[19511]: INFO    Set
>         >         > maxRetry = 3
>         >         > 2015-08-24 08:42:49,665
>         >         > fail2ban.server.actions[19511]: INFO    Set
>         >         > banTime = 600
>         >         > 2015-08-24 08:42:49,667
>         >         > fail2ban.server.filter[19511]: INFO    Set
>         >         > findtime = 600
>         >         > 2015-08-24 08:42:49,670
>         >         > fail2ban.server.filter[19511]: INFO    Date
>         >         > pattern set to `'^L %d/%m/%Y - %H:%M:%S'`: `^L Da
>         >         > y/Month/Year - 24hour:Minute:Second`
>         >         > 2015-08-24 08:42:49,690
>         >         > fail2ban.server.jail[19511]: INFO    Jail 'sshd'
>         >         > started
>         >         > 2015-08-24 08:42:49,690
>         >         > fail2ban.server.action[19511]: ERROR   iptables -N
>         >         > f2b-sshd
>         >         > iptables -A f2b-sshd -j RETURN
>         >         > iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports ssh
>         >         > -j f2b-sshd -- failed with [Errno 24] Too many
>         >         > open files
>         >         > 2015-08-24 08:42:49,690
>         >         > fail2ban.server.actions[19511]: ERROR   Failed to
>         >         > start jail 'sshd' action 'iptables-multipor
>         >         > t': local variable 'retcode' referenced before
>         >         > assignment
>         >         > 2015-08-24 08:42:49,696
>         >         > fail2ban.server.jail[19511]: INFO    Jail
>         >         > 'sshd-ddos' started
>         >         > 2015-08-24 08:42:49,698
>         >         > fail2ban.server.actions[19511]: ERROR   Failed to
>         >         > start jail 'sshd-ddos' action 'iptables-mul
>         >         > tiport': [Errno 24] Too many open files:
>         >         > '/tmp/fai2ban_Kfztgy.stderr'
>         >         > 
>         >         > 
>         >         > 
>         >         > 
>         >         > # grep -v "^#" /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf
>         >         > 
>         >         > 
>         >         > [Definition]
>         >         > loglevel = INFO
>         >         > 
>         >         > logtarget = /var/log/fail2ban.log
>         >         > 
>         >         > socket = /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock
>         >         > 
>         >         > pidfile = /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid
>         >         > 
>         >         > dbfile = /var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3
>         >         > 
>         >         > dbpurgeage = 86400
>         >         > 
>         >         > 
>         >         > 
>         >         > (notice that my IP address has been munged to
>         >         > protect me...)
>         >         > 
>         >         > 
>         >         > # grep -v '^#' /etc/fail2ban/jail.local
>         >         > [INCLUDES]
>         >         > 
>         >         > 
>         >         > [DEFAULT]
>         >         > ignoreip = 127.0.0.1/8 X.Y.Z.A
>         >         > bantime  = 600
>         >         > 
>         >         > findtime  = 600
>         >         > 
>         >         > maxretry = 3
>         >         > 
>         >         > backend = systemd
>         >         > 
>         >         > usedns = no
>         >         > enabled = true
>         >         > filter = %(__name__)s
>         >         > destemail = root@localhost
>         >         > 
>         >         > sender = root@localhost
>         >         > 
>         >         > 
>         >         > 
>         >         > [sshd]
>         >         > 
>         >         > port    = ssh
>         >         > 
>         >         > logpath = %(sshd_log)s
>         >         > enabled = true
>         >         > 
>         >         > 
>         >         > [sshd-ddos]
>         >         > port    = ssh
>         >         > logpath = %(sshd_log)s
>         >         > 
>         >         > 
>         >         > [dropbear]
>         >         > port     = ssh
>         >         > 
>         >         > logpath  = %(dropbear_log)s
>         >         > 
>         >         > 
>         >         > [selinux-ssh]
>         >         > 
>         >         > port     = ssh
>         >         > 
>         >         > logpath  = %(auditd_log)s
>         >         > maxretry = 5
>         >         > 
>         >         > 
>         >         > -- 
>         >         > -Mike Schwager 
>         >         > 
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