On Saturday 28 February 2009 23:45, Devraj Mukherjee wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to get fail2ban going on my server and its log message reports the following error
2009-02-16 17:42:05,339 ERROR: 'iptables -L INPUT | grep -q fail2ban-SSH' returned 256 2009-02-16 17:42:05,354 ERROR: 'iptables -D INPUT -p tcp --dport ssh -j fail2ban-SSH
Is this because of the way the RedHat tool sets up the firewall?
Thanks for any responses.
Redhart in their great wisdom decided to make themselve different. As a way of making it's customers dependant on them. This is simple to fix.
Edit the rule set with your favoirate editor and do the following:
Remove all the lines with -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT. Replace all the lines with RH-Firewall-1-INPUT with INPUT
The original looks something like this:
# Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel # Manual customization of this file is not recommended. *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0] -A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type any -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited COMMIT
The new should look something like this:
# Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel # Manual customization of this file is not recommended. *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type any -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p udp --dport 5353 -d 224.0.0.251 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited COMMIT
Fail2Ban should work now.