On 11/04/2011 12:48 PM, Kévin GASPARD wrote:
The output of service fail2ban start in root (that's in french) :
Démarrage de fail2ban : [ÉCHOUÉ]
The docs on the fail2ban website also say how you can start fail2ban manually (at http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/MANUAL_0_8#Usage):
$ fail2ban-client start
Maybe starting it that way gives you more information why it fails.
Regards, Patrick