Hello, I installed fail2ban in opensuse 11.3 server. After restarted status shows www:~ # fail2ban-client status Status |- Number of jail: 0 `- Jail list: But I do have apache and pureftpd fail active, and of course fail2ban is not banning. I notice that the fail2ban log file is old no new entries on it. I do have ipatables on but is fail2ban is not active. www:~ # iptables -n -L INPUT Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state ESTABLISHED ACCEPT icmp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED input_ext all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 input_ext all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 LOG all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 limit: avg 3/min burst 5 LOG flags 6 level 4 prefix `SFW2-IN-ILL-TARGET ' DROP all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 www:~ # Here is my jail file.. [apache-nohome] enabled = true filter = apache-nohome action = iptables-multiport[name=apache-nohome, port="http,https"] sendmail-buffered[name=apache-nohome, lines=5, [email protected]] [name=apache-overflows, port=http,https, protocol=tcp] logpath = /var/log/apache2/error_log bantime = 86400 maxretry = 1 [pureftpd-iptables] enabled = true filter = pure-ftpd action = iptables[name=pure-ftpd, port=ftp, protocol=tcp] sendmail-whois[name=pure-ftpd, [email protected], [email protected]] logpath = /var/log/warn maxretry = 3 I tested with www:~ # fail2ban-regex /var/log/warn /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/pure-ftpd.conf Success, the total number of match is 22827 Any sugestion. Reagrds, Al