The Perfect Server fail2ban problem

[arspoetica]

I can't seem to get fail2ban to start up. I don't know if it is a jailkit issue or a fail2ban issue (or me being stupid issue), but this is the only part of the guide I am having trouble with.

sudo /etc/init.d/fail2ban restart
Restarting authentication failure monitor: fail2ban failed!

Here is the fail2ban.log file

2011-12-18 10:13:57,033 fail2ban.server : INFO Changed logging target to /var/log/fail2ban.log for Fail2ban v0.8.4-SVN
2011-12-18 10:13:57,034 fail2ban.jail : INFO Creating new jail 'ssh'
2011-12-18 10:13:57,034 fail2ban.jail : INFO Jail 'ssh' uses poller
2011-12-18 10:13:57,068 fail2ban.filter : INFO Added logfile = /var/log/auth.log
2011-12-18 10:13:57,069 fail2ban.filter : INFO Set maxRetry = 6
2011-12-18 10:13:57,070 fail2ban.filter : INFO Set findtime = 600
2011-12-18 10:13:57,070 fail2ban.actions: INFO Set banTime = 600
2011-12-18 10:13:57,128 fail2ban.jail : INFO Jail 'ssh' started
2011-12-18 19:06:07,371 fail2ban.jail : INFO Jail 'ssh' stopped
2011-12-18 19:06:07,371 fail2ban.server : INFO Exiting Fail2ban

Thanks for any help

[falko]

Which tutorial (URL) did you use?

[arspoetica]

http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-se...ispconfig-3-p5

[falko]

Did you modify any other fail2ban configuration files apart from the ones mentioned in the tutorial?

What happens when you undo the changes from the tutorial? Does it work then?

[arspoetica]

Nope, all the files are configured the same as the file... I will double check over all the files again to make sure nothing is missing and if that doesn't work I will try changing them back, but this is a fresh install all the way around so I don't know how I screwed it up. After having trouble the first time I followed a recommendation on a post and upgraded to jailkit 2.14 though.