I'm a developer and at least aware that there is additional complexity to wrap a standard "tar" source into an Ubuntu .deb. I see these:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/fail2ban (standard, ubuntu wrapped) https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban (development) But I'm not sure of the precise (no pun intended) steps to get the source from the git (as tar.gz?), get all the Ubuntu patches applied, not sure if I have all the build dependencies, etc. And are the Ubuntu patches correct for the development version? If you can confirm the URLs above are the right starting points for the development version, and outline the steps to build a package .deb for Ubuntu, I'll try it if I have time. It will take a while. Polling is working and it isn't a priority for me right now. ----- Mark Schroeder --- On Wed, 6/6/12, Yaroslav Halchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Yaroslav Halchenko <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Bug 954453] Re: fail2ban in precise defaults to gamin, does not > work > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 4:02 PM > On Tue, 22 May 2012, Mark Schroeder > wrote: > > > I'm not sure what you want tested. > > I know that polling is guaranteed to work ;) sorry if > I wasn't clear > -- I wondered if you could test current development version > which > is in git which should use inotify by default (to replace > gamin)... but > I guess it might be not that trivial, so nevermind -- thanks > for the > feedback anyways. > > > I briefly tried gamin with ssh, and it worked, at least > for a bit. > > Another friend tried it and reports that his postfix > rules > > did not result in a ban as expected, though. > > > I then put it back to 'polling', and that failed to be > effective > > until I rebooted and restarted the fail2ban service. > > At that point, it seemed to work (with polling) again. > > > ----- > > Mark Schroeder > > -- > Yaroslav O. Halchenko > Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of > Psychological and Brain Sciences > Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, > NH 03755 > Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 > Fax: +1 > (603) 646-1419 > WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are > subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/954453 > > Title: > fail2ban in precise defaults to gamin, does not work > > Status in “fail2ban” package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > == Relevant config ================================= > > /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf > > # "backend" specifies the backend used to get files > modification. Available > # options are "gamin", "polling" and "auto". > # yoh: For some reason Debian shipped python-gamin > didn't work as expected > # This issue left ToDo, so > polling is default backend for now > #backend = auto > backend = polling > > == InstallationMedia > ================================= > Ubuntu-Server 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha > amd64 (20120312) > > == Package ================================= > fail2ban 0.8.6-3 > > == Issue ================================= > > # date > Tue Mar 13 21:58:18 CET 2012 > > Polling works: > > # grep ^backend /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf > backend = polling > # /etc/init.d/fail2ban restart > * Restarting authentication failure > monitor fail2ban > > > > > > > [ OK ] > # tail /var/log/fail2ban.log -n1 > 2012-03-13 21:58:26,145 fail2ban.actions: WARNING > [ssh] Ban 217.21.x.x > > Gamin, doesn't work: > > # grep ^backend /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf > backend = auto > # /etc/init.d/fail2ban restart > * Restarting authentication failure > monitor fail2ban > > > > > > > [ OK ] > # tail /var/log/fail2ban.log -n1 > 2012-03-13 21:59:30,885 > fail2ban.jail : INFO Jail > 'ssh' started > # grep ' uses ' /var/log/fail2ban.log | tail -n1 > 2012-03-13 21:59:30,797 > fail2ban.jail : INFO Jail > 'ssh' uses Gamin > > The comment in jail.conf about Gamin that "doesn't > work", still seems > to be true. > > This issue doesn't only occur after restarting. Gamin > didn't work in > the first place -- which caused me to look into it. > > Regards, > Walter Doekes > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fail2ban/+bug/954453/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/954453 Title: fail2ban in precise defaults to gamin, does not work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fail2ban/+bug/954453/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
