The Perfect Server - Debian Squeeze - Fail2ban authentication failure

[thavaht]

Hi,

Ater set up The Perfect Server - Debian Squeeze [ISPConfig 3] i get this:

~# /etc/init.d/fail2ban restart
Restarting authentication failure monitor: fail2ban.

I've double checked all configuration and all seems ok.
Trere's no errors on /var/log/syslog nor /var/log/mail.log. Ihave googled a lot. Can you point me what, where to check?

TIA

thavaht

[erosbk]

Please post the contents of:

/etc/fail2ban/jail.local

and of every file in /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/

[onlinewebs]

Hi,

I would not like to hijack someones thread, but I presume that he has got the system working and therefore no further comments have been posted here.

I have exactly the same problem on Debian 6.

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

My /etc/fail2ban/jail.local file reads as follows:-

[pureftpd]

enabled  = true
port     = ftp
filter   = pureftpd
logpath  = /var/log/syslog
maxretry = 3


[sasl]

enabled  = true
port     = smtp
filter   = sasl
logpath  = /var/log/mail.log
maxretry = 5


[courierpop3]

enabled  = true
port     = pop3
filter   = courierpop3
logpath  = /var/log/mail.log
maxretry = 5


[courierpop3s]

enabled  = true
port     = pop3s
filter   = courierpop3s
logpath  = /var/log/mail.log
maxretry = 5


[courierimap]

enabled  = true
port     = imap2
filter   = courierimap
logpath  = /var/log/mail.log
maxretry = 5


[courierimaps]

enabled  = true
port     = imaps
filter   = courierimaps
logpath  = /var/log/mail.log
maxretry = 5

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[falko]

Any errors in your logs (in the /var/log/ directory)?

[baskin]

I have the same problem following the how to here.

Where to look for errors?

Thanks you in advance.

[baskin]

The jail.local file in the how to has to be changed so the following line is:

filter   = pure-ftpd

Please make the change.

After that fail2ban starts successfully.