On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, Kenneth Porter wrote: > Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 23:58:14 > From: Kenneth Porter <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Fail2ban-users] IPTables error > > On 10/20/2015 2:20 PM, Richard Nairn wrote: >> I am getting an error starting up iptables now. It seems to be running >> iptables with a bad flag "-w": > No solution, but I was unaware of the -w flag. I found it got added in > 2013 to deal with parallel invocations of iptables trampling each other: > http://git.netfilter.org/iptables/commit/?id=93587a04d0f2511e108bbc4d87a8b9d28a5c5dd8
There is an alternative to the -w flag; see here: http://yalis.fr/cms/index.php/post/2014/11/02/Migrate-from-DenyHosts-to-Fail2ban The alternative is to use the lockfile-progs. Cheers, Yves. > The optional time delay argument to -w was added in 2014: > http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg31949.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fail2ban-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users
