Hi I have followed the guide on ISPconfig 3 for Ubuntu-9.04 Everything works perfect, but I have some problems with fail2ban and I have tried everthing I can think of. # /etc/init.d/fail2ban restart * Restarting authentication failure monitor fail2ban [ OK ] But if I look in the log file I have errors: ----------------------------------------- 2009-05-12 15:34:19,688 fail2ban.jail : INFO Jail 'ssh' stopped 2009-05-12 15:34:19,690 fail2ban.server : INFO Exiting Fail2ban 2009-05-12 15:34:20,154 fail2ban.server : INFO Changed logging target to /var/log/fail2ban.log for Fail2ban v0.8.3 2009-05-12 15:34:20,155 fail2ban.jail : INFO Creating new jail 'ssh' 2009-05-12 15:34:20,155 fail2ban.jail : INFO Jail 'ssh' uses poller 2009-05-12 15:34:20,176 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error 2009-05-12 15:34:20,177 fail2ban.filter : INFO Added logfile = /var/log/auth.log 2009-05-12 15:34:20,178 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error 2009-05-12 15:34:20,178 fail2ban.filter : INFO Set maxRetry = 5 2009-05-12 15:34:20,179 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error 2009-05-12 15:34:20,180 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error 2009-05-12 15:34:20,181 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error 2009-05-12 15:34:20,181 fail2ban.filter : INFO Set findtime = 600 2009-05-12 15:34:20,182 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error 2009-05-12 15:34:20,182 fail2ban.actions: INFO Set banTime = 600 2009-05-12 15:34:20,183 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error 2009-05-12 15:34:20,189 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error 2009-05-12 15:34:20,194 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error 2009-05-12 15:34:20,201 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error 2009-05-12 15:34:20,209 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error 2009-05-12 15:34:20,217 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error 2009-05-12 15:34:20,228 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error 2009-05-12 15:34:20,242 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error 2009-05-12 15:34:20,258 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error 2009-05-12 15:34:20,305 fail2ban.jail : INFO Creating new jail 'apache' 2009-05-12 15:34:20,305 fail2ban.jail : INFO Jail 'apache' uses poller 2009-05-12 15:34:20,321 fail2ban.filter : INFO Added logfile = /var/log/apache2/error.log 2009-05-12 15:34:20,323 fail2ban.filter : INFO Set maxRetry = 5 2009-05-12 15:34:20,325 fail2ban.filter : INFO Set findtime = 600 2009-05-12 15:34:20,326 fail2ban.actions: INFO Set banTime = 600 2009-05-12 15:34:20,417 fail2ban.jail : INFO Jail 'ssh' started 2009-05-12 15:34:20,419 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error 2009-05-12 15:34:20,476 fail2ban.jail : INFO Jail 'apache' started 2009-05-12 15:34:20,493 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error Can you please help me? Thanks in advance.
Solution for Ubuntu 9.04 #apt-get install python2.5 Change the python version there execute the fail2ban-server script. /usr/bin/fail2ban-server (edit) Change the first line from: #!/usr/bin/python --> to #!/usr/bin/python2.5 After that restart fail2ban # /etc/init.d/fail2ban restart /var/log/fail2ban.log 2009-05-12 13:26:39,809 fail2ban.server : INFO Changed logging target to /var$ 2009-05-12 13:26:39,810 fail2ban.jail : INFO Creating new jail 'ssh' 2009-05-12 13:26:39,811 fail2ban.jail : INFO Jail 'ssh' uses poller 2009-05-12 13:26:39,865 fail2ban.filter : INFO Added logfile = /var/log/auth.$ 2009-05-12 13:26:39,866 fail2ban.filter : INFO Set maxRetry = 6 2009-05-12 13:26:39,868 fail2ban.filter : INFO Set findtime = 600 2009-05-12 13:26:39,869 fail2ban.actions: INFO Set banTime = 600 2009-05-12 13:26:40,058 fail2ban.jail : INFO Jail 'ssh' started
