Theo Band wrote:
I have updated recently to 6 and see that fail2band ssh dos no longer works. Indeed after log rotate fail2ban seems to follow the old log file instead of the newly created /var/log/secure. I had backend = auto in /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf and gamin and pyinotify are both installed. I now changed backend to gamin and give it another try. The next log rotate is next week.... Anyone else using fail2ban with CentOS6 installed from epel?
I'm running fail2ban on my server (under CentOS-6.4) and it seems to be running according to ------------------------- [tim@grover fail2ban]$ sudo service fail2ban status Fail2ban (pid 31794) is running... Status |- Number of jail: 1 `- Jail list: ssh-iptables ------------------------- I have absolutely no idea how fail2ban works, and I'm running it with the default /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf , which seems to set the logfile to /var/log/fail2ban.log . Should I actually study how it is meant to be configured?
I just yum-installed it (from Epel, I assume) and hope it does its job, whatever that is.
Incidentally, I am running shorewall on this server. Should I tell shorewall something about fail2ban, or vice versa?