[CentOS] fail2ban won't die

Thu Jan 5 00:06:46 UTC 2012
Timothy Murphy <gayleard at alice.it>

If I lose my broadband connection here (Italy),
and try to re-boot the computer (CentOS-6.2),
the shutdown hangs at fail2ban.
Normally there is no problem re-booting;
it only happens if the network has gone down.

It may just be an extraordinarily long timeout.

Has anyone experienced this?
And is there anything one can do about it?


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