Bug#983534: fail2ban: set syslog_local0 to /var/log/syslog (not /var/log/messages) for Debian

[Mike Gabriel]

Package: fail2ban
Severity: important




If you, as the maintainers, agree, I can file a PR upstream for this, too.

Feedback? Comments?
Mike
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Some days ago, I discovered, that the internal path variable %{syslog_local} in fail2ban's config is set to /var/log/messages by default. For the Debian package of fail2ban, shouldn't this be changed to /var/log/syslog? This would be a Debian-specific change.

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