På Fri, 26 Apr 2019 11:50:47 +0100 Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk> skrev: > On Friday 19 April 2019 16:15:32 Kenneth Porter wrote: > > On 4/19/2019 5:30 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > > I've followed one of the pages on line specifically for > > > installing fail2ban on Centos 7 and all looks fine. > > > > Which page? It would help to see what they advised. > > On Friday 19 April 2019 16:15:32 Kenneth Porter wrote: > > On 4/19/2019 5:30 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > > I've followed one of the pages on line specifically for installing > > > fail2ban on Centos 7 and all looks fine. > > > > Which page? It would help to see what they advised. > > I think I worked from two pages. One I believe was > > https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-install-fail2ban-on-centos/ > > I can't remember the other one. I have removed all of the manual > amendments so am now basically set up as initially installed. > > /var/log/fail2ban.log is showing that it's working: I have seem similar odd behaviour with f2b with other filters. Try to uninstall the package fail2ban-systemd and stop and start fail2ban again. This might change its behavior to the better. Allan.