In article n009u2$85v$1@softins.softins.co.uk, Tony Mountifield tony@softins.co.uk wrote:

Apologies, this is slightly off-topic being to do with an EPEL package, although it's running on CentOS6, so I thought others here might have come across this issue.

I have five CentOS 6 systems running fail2ban from EPEL, and this package was updated in the last week from 0.9.2-1.el6 to 0.9.3-1.el6.

On all these systems, I received an error from logrotate this morning.

[root@system ~]# /usr/bin/fail2ban-client flushlogs logs: rolled over Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/fail2ban-client", line 470, in <module> if client.start(sys.argv): File "/usr/bin/fail2ban-client", line 440, in start return self.__processCommand(args) File "/usr/bin/fail2ban-client", line 281, in __processCommand return self.__processCmd([cmd]) File "/usr/bin/fail2ban-client", line 185, in __processCmd client.close() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/fail2ban/client/csocket.py", line 55, in close self.__csock.sendall(CSPROTO.CLOSE + CSPROTO.END) File "<string>", line 1, in sendall socket.error: [Errno 32] Broken pipe [root@system ~]#

OK, on further investigation, I found that the fail2ban service had not been restarted by the update script.

So I restarted it, and got the same error as it was stopping, but it started up ok. After restarting, the error no longer occurs:

[root@system ~]# ps -fC fail2ban-server root 7528 1 0 Sep23 ? 00:10:06 /usr/bin/python -Es /usr/bin/fail2ban-server -s /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock -p /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid -x -b [root@system ~]# service fail2ban restart Stopping fail2ban: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/fail2ban-client", line 470, in <module> if client.start(sys.argv): File "/usr/bin/fail2ban-client", line 440, in start return self.__processCommand(args) File "/usr/bin/fail2ban-client", line 281, in __processCommand return self.__processCmd([cmd]) File "/usr/bin/fail2ban-client", line 185, in __processCmd client.close() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/fail2ban/client/csocket.py", line 55, in close self.__csock.sendall(CSPROTO.CLOSE + CSPROTO.END) File "<string>", line 1, in sendall socket.error: [Errno 32] Broken pipe [FAILED] Starting fail2ban: [ OK ] [root@system ~]# ps -fC fail2ban-server root 11647 1 1 15:30 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python -Es /usr/bin/fail2ban-server -s /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock -p /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid -x -b [root@system ~]# /usr/bin/fail2ban-client flushlogs logs: rolled over [root@system ~]#

Hope this info is useful to others...

Cheers Tony