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  sudo nano /etc/fail2ban/jail.local
  sudo nano /etc/fail2ban/jail.local
to edit config edit the jail.local file!!!
==trying to resolve errors:==
<poem>
<poem>
trying to resolve errors:
018-03-14 19:45:55,363 fail2ban.action        [571]: ERROR  iptables -w -D INPUT -p tcp -j f2b-recidive
018-03-14 19:45:55,363 fail2ban.action        [571]: ERROR  iptables -w -D INPUT -p tcp -j f2b-recidive
iptables -w -F f2b-recidive
iptables -w -F f2b-recidive
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2018-03-14 19:46:17,203 fail2ban.filter        [588]: INFO    Set jail log file encoding to UTF-8
2018-03-14 19:46:17,203 fail2ban.filter        [588]: INFO    Set jail log file encoding to UTF-8
</poem>
</poem>
steps taken:
sudo apt install python-pyinotify
sudo
changed: <code>backend = auto</code>
to: <code>backend = pyinotify</code>

Revision as of 13:15, 18 March 2018

sudo cp /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.local
sudo cp /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf /etc/fail2ban/jail.local
sudo nano /etc/fail2ban/jail.local


to edit config edit the jail.local file!!!

trying to resolve errors:

<poem> 018-03-14 19:45:55,363 fail2ban.action [571]: ERROR iptables -w -D INPUT -p tcp -j f2b-recidive iptables -w -F f2b-recidive iptables -w -X f2b-recidive -- stdout: b 2018-03-14 19:45:55,364 fail2ban.action [571]: ERROR iptables -w -D INPUT -p tcp -j f2b-recidive iptables -w -F f2b-recidive iptables -w -X f2b-recidive -- stderr: b'iptables: Too many links.\n' 2018-03-14 19:45:55,365 fail2ban.action [571]: ERROR iptables -w -D INPUT -p tcp -j f2b-recidive iptables -w -F f2b-recidive iptables -w -X f2b-recidive -- returned 1 2018-03-14 19:45:55,366 fail2ban.actions [571]: ERROR Failed to stop jail 'recidive' action 'iptables-allports': Error stopping action 2018-03-14 19:45:55,367 fail2ban.jail [571]: INFO Jail 'recidive' stopped 2018-03-14 19:45:56,450 fail2ban.action [571]: ERROR iptables -w -D INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports 2222 -j f2b-sshd iptables -w -F f2b-sshd iptables -w -X f2b-sshd -- stdout: b 2018-03-14 19:45:56,451 fail2ban.action [571]: ERROR iptables -w -D INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports 2222 -j f2b-sshd iptables -w -F f2b-sshd iptables -w -X f2b-sshd -- stderr: b'iptables: Too many links.\n' 2018-03-14 19:45:56,452 fail2ban.action [571]: ERROR iptables -w -D INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports 2222 -j f2b-sshd iptables -w -F f2b-sshd iptables -w -X f2b-sshd -- returned 1 2018-03-14 19:45:56,453 fail2ban.actions [571]: ERROR Failed to stop jail 'sshd' action 'iptables-multiport': Error stopping action 2018-03-14 19:45:56,454 fail2ban.jail [571]: INFO Jail 'sshd' stopped 2018-03-14 19:45:57,452 fail2ban.jail [571]: INFO Jail 'sshd-ddos' stopped 2018-03-14 19:45:57,457 fail2ban.server [571]: INFO Exiting Fail2ban 2018-03-14 19:46:16,950 fail2ban.server [588]: INFO Changed logging target to /var/log/fail2ban.log for Fail2ban v0.9.6 2018-03-14 19:46:16,972 fail2ban.database [588]: INFO Connected to fail2ban persistent database '/var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3' 2018-03-14 19:46:16,992 fail2ban.jail [588]: INFO Creating new jail 'sshd' 2018-03-14 19:46:17,099 fail2ban.jail [588]: INFO Jail 'sshd' uses pyinotify {} 2018-03-14 19:46:17,200 fail2ban.jail [588]: INFO Initiated 'pyinotify' backend 2018-03-14 19:46:17,203 fail2ban.filter [588]: INFO Set jail log file encoding to UTF-8 </poem>

steps taken:

sudo apt install python-pyinotify
sudo 

changed: backend = auto to: backend = pyinotify