Sorry for the "bump", but I am still hoping that someone from the core developers team would be able to respond.
On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, Igor wrote: > > > I was testing a recent patch by Cristoph (#1689): > https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/1689 > (Thank you, Christoph!) > > > That patch contains a new variable "lowest_rule_num" whose value is set > in config/action.d/bsd-ipfw.conf > > I thought that setting its value in jail.local would override its > default value, but it turns out that fail2ban does not read this > value from jail.local (or from fail2ban.local), neither on "reload" nor on > a fresh startup. > > I am probably wrong, but I thought that one can set any variable's value > in jail.local (or fail2ban.local) and that will override their default > values. > > Is this a bug or by design? > Is there a way that defines the "scope" of a configuration variable > (global vs. local) that would affect if the variable value can be set by > a user in jail.local or fail2ban.local ? > > Thank you, > > Igor > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Fail2ban-users mailing list Fail2ban-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users
