Been working on fail2ban, and trying to make it work with plain Jane install of Centos 7 Machine is a HP running 2 Quad core Xeons, 16 gig or ram and 1 plus TB of disk space. Very generic and vanilla. Current available epel repo version is fail2ban-0.9.1 Looking at the log file, fail2ban starts and stops fine, there isn't output though showing any login attempts being restricted. 2015-03-09 12:54:37,930 fail2ban.server [14805]: INFO Stopping all jails 2015-03-09 12:54:37,931 fail2ban.server [14805]: INFO Exiting Fail2ban 2015-03-09 12:54:38,338 fail2ban.server [16678]: INFO Changed logging target to /var/log/fail2ban.log for Fail2ban v0.9.1 2015-03-09 12:54:38,341 fail2ban.database [16678]: INFO Connected to fail2ban persistent database '/var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3' I copied jail.conf and added the edited jail.local to the directory /etc/fail2ban/ This is about as far as I have gotten with searches on how to configure with Centos 7. Any help would be welcome. What am I missing? john