I've been a user of fail2ban for several years. I'm not an expert. But I'm not a newbie either. Everything has been running fine on Ubuntu 14.04.
I'm building a new Ubuntu 16.04 machine. I installed the fail2ban package (v0.9.3) and encountered this problem immediately after install and before performing any customization at all. "fail2ban-client stop" claims success, but syslog shows problems. Question 1: Why is the client reporting success even though there is evidently a problem? Question 2: Why is it starting again, when the command given was "stop"? $ sudo fail2ban-client stop Shutdown successful /var/log/syslog: Aug 7 12:12:36 w6xsc-gw fail2ban-client[5318]: ERROR Failed to access socket path: /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock. Is fail2ban running? Aug 7 12:12:36 w6xsc-gw systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=255 Aug 7 12:12:36 w6xsc-gw systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Unit entered failed state. Aug 7 12:12:36 w6xsc-gw systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Aug 7 12:12:36 w6xsc-gw systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. Aug 7 12:12:36 w6xsc-gw systemd[1]: Stopped Fail2Ban Service. Aug 7 12:12:36 w6xsc-gw systemd[1]: Starting Fail2Ban Service... Aug 7 12:12:36 w6xsc-gw fail2ban-client[5322]: 2017-08-07 12:12:36,845 fail2ban.server [5324]: INFO Starting Fail2ban v0.9.3 Aug 7 12:12:36 w6xsc-gw fail2ban-client[5322]: 2017-08-07 12:12:36,845 fail2ban.server [5324]: INFO Starting in daemon mode Aug 7 12:12:37 w6xsc-gw systemd[1]: Started Fail2Ban Service. $ ls -l /var/run/fail2ban total 4 -rw------- 1 root root 5 Aug 7 12:12 fail2ban.pid srwx------ 1 root root 0 Aug 7 12:12 fail2ban.sock Thanks in advance, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
