fail2ban error

I have this error in Ispconfig control panel: Unable to read /var/log/fail2ban.log
When I look in /var/log there is no fail2ban.log so I create one, permissions 774 and owner root:root
Then the error changes in: fail2ban is not installed

I am using: Perfect server Fedora 12 ( i686 ), ISPConfig v 3.0.2.1

Who has an idea ?

 

Hello Till,

I think fail2ban is not in the path

Code:

[root@obelix /]# which fail2ban
/usr/bin/which: no fail2ban in (/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin:/usr/lib/courier-imap/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin)

Now, how do I get it inot the path ?

 

The fact the log file didn't exist indicates that it might not be installed??

Code:

yum install fail2ban
chkconfig --levels 235 fail2ban on
/etc/init.d/fail2ban start

 

Hello BillCouper,

I am sure fail2ban is installed ! To be very sure I rebooted my box and I saw fail2ban in the list with started services.

So it must be something else...

 

What's the output of

Code:

updatedb
locate fail2ban

?

 

Hello Falko,

The output of locate fail2ban is a long list so I attached it to this message.

 

fail2ban seems to be installed. I've created a bug report in our bugtracker, so we will check this.

 

What is the output of the following two commands

Code:

cat /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf

Code:

ls -la /var/log | grep "fail"

 

cat /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf

Code:

# Fail2Ban configuration file
#
# Author: Cyril Jaquier
#
# $Revision: 629 $
#

[Definition]

# Option:  loglevel
# Notes.:  Set the log level output.
#          1 = ERROR
#          2 = WARN
#          3 = INFO
#          4 = DEBUG
# Values:  NUM  Default:  3
#
loglevel = 3

# Option:  logtarget
# Notes.:  Set the log target. This could be a file, SYSLOG, STDERR or STDOUT.
#          Only one log target can be specified.
# Values:  STDOUT STDERR SYSLOG file  Default:  /var/log/fail2ban.log
#
logtarget = SYSLOG

# Option: socket
# Notes.: Set the socket file. This is used to communicate with the daemon. Do
#         not remove this file when Fail2ban runs. It will not be possible to
#         communicate with the server afterwards.
# Values: FILE  Default:  /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock
#
socket = /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock

ls -la /var/log | grep "fail"

Code:

-rwxrwxrwx  1 root     root             36 2010-03-28 21:52 fail2ban.log

 

Hello Till,

Code:

[root@obelix /]# which fail2ban
/usr/bin/which: no fail2ban in (/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin)

Code:

[root@obelix /]# which fail2ban-client
/usr/bin/fail2ban-client

Have a nice day.

 

Update

I have reason to believe this problem is solved.

If someone can confirm that the information in the attached fail2ban log is the expected information in fail2ban.log then the problem is solved.

What did I try: update to ispconfig v3.0.2.1, create /var/log/fail2ban.log, owner root:root, permissions 774.

A big thank you to everybody.