Bug#334272: Did not start [was Re: Bug#334272: fail2ban: returned ERROR 256 from iptables]

2005-10-18 Thread Ralph Katz
Yarik, Yesterday using 0.5.4-5.14, valid ssh logins worked fine, and ssh attacks were correctly prevented. But upon restart, fail2ban failed to start. (I shutdown each night and reboot each morning.) /var/log/fail2ban: 2005-10-18 09:05:50,289 WARNING: Verbose level is 1 2005-10-18 09:05:50,297

Bug#334272: Did not start [was Re: Bug#334272: fail2ban: returned ERROR 256 from iptables]

2005-10-18 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:08:53AM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: Yesterday using 0.5.4-5.14, valid ssh logins worked fine, and ssh attacks were correctly prevented. Maybe fail2ban starts too soon? That would be my guess too. fail2ban boots in rc2.d, so all relevant modules should be loaded by

Bug#334272: Did not start [was Re: Bug#334272: fail2ban: returned ERROR 256 from iptables]

2005-10-18 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/18/2005 02:24 PM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: That would be my guess too. fail2ban boots in rc2.d, so all relevant modules should be loaded by that time. I hope you don't use any fast-boot tricks as to boot init scripts in parallel ()? Plain vanilla sarge. No tweaks/tricks. Old PIII

Bug#334272: Did not start [was Re: Bug#334272: fail2ban: returned ERROR 256 from iptables]

2005-10-18 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:45:23PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: As a non-programmer, I can't judge your proposed solution. Meanwhile I'll check /var/log/fail2ban and restart fail2ban manually if needed after each system reboot. no need. for you if the cause is really missing iptables by the time