On 7 August 2017 at 20:33, Michael Fox <n...@mefox.org> wrote:
> 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
>
Not sure if it will help, but in Ubuntu 16.04 the way to start and stop
fail2ban is with systemctl (under systemd control):
sudo systemctl start|stop|reload-or-restart fail2ban
BTW, fail2ban 0.9.3 can be very (very) slow starting, stopping and
reloading.
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