Hi All, I am following this how-to to install fail2ban on debian ecth. http://www.howtoforge.com/fail2ban_debian_etch Installing the way the how-to suggest installs an older version of fail2ban (0.7.1). I want to install the new updated version on the fail2ban site - Which is 0.8.2... I see there's been some bug fixes and new features. I try to do a apt-get install fail2ban-0.8.2 to see if it would install the new version and that did not work. Then I try to install from source which installed o.k BUT when I try to start fail2ban I get this error: Code: host:/etc/init.d# fail2ban-client start 2008-04-02 12:21:27,611 fail2ban.server : INFO Starting Fail2ban v0.8.2 2008-04-02 12:21:27,612 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unable to create PID file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid' Would appreciate any help regarding above. Also, I have another question: I am running a OpenVZ environment. I was wondering if I can install Fail2ban on the host node as appose to every single VPS. And, in my fail2ban config if I can specify different paths for each VPS logs path. For example: (Only using TCPwrapper service below) Code: [ssh-tcpwrapper] enabled = true filter = sshd action = hostsdeny sendmail-whois[name=SSH, [email protected]] ignoreregex = for myuser from [B]logpath = 101/var/log/auth.log <---VPS logpath = 102/var/log/auth.log <---Another VPS logpath = 200/var/log/auth.log <--- etc....[/B] If I can do the above then I can control the settings and keep all config files from VPS users - Hope that makes sense.. Would appreciate any comments/suggestions to doing the above. Joe
What are the outputs of Code: ls -la /var/run and Code: ls -la /var/run/fail2ban ? That would protect only the host, but not the virtual machines.
