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