Re: Why does fail2ban-client show no jails?

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/30/23 05:00, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> >     I've configured fail2ban following the wiki, it is running, and
> > I've enabled jails in /etc/fail2ban/jails.local
>
> Try jail.local; no ‘s’.

Ohh, say it ain't so... the shame of it...

WHEW NOT!, thank you Ralph :)

# l
total 100
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  4096 Nov 29 15:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 148 root root 12288 Nov 30 16:14 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 23  2023 action.d
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Nov  9  2022 fail2ban.d
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 May 23  2023 filter.d
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Nov 29 15:29 jail.d
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  3017 May 20  2023 fail2ban.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    57 Dec 19  2022 fail2ban.local
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 25605 May 20  2023 jail.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   415 Nov 29 15:56 jail.local
...

I could see myself doing something like that... So I was relieved it was a 
typo in the email and not the .local filename. Same issue persists:

# fail2ban-client status
Status
|- Number of jail:      0
`- Jail list:

It's been up and running, but still the jail issue is puzzling:

 # scs fail2ban
● fail2ban.service - Fail2Ban Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/fail2ban.service; enabled; 
preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/fail2ban.service.d
             └─override.conf
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2023-11-29 15:56:50 CST; 1 day 8h ago
       Docs: man:fail2ban(1)
    Process: 4409 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /run/fail2ban (code=exited, 
status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 4411 (fail2ban-server)
      Tasks: 3 (limit: 38450)
     Memory: 14.1M
        CPU: 3.583s
     CGroup: /system.slice/fail2ban.service
             └─4411 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/fail2ban-server -xf start

Nov 29 15:56:50 valkyrie systemd[1]: Starting Fail2Ban Service...
Nov 29 15:56:50 valkyrie systemd[1]: Started Fail2Ban Service.
Nov 29 15:56:51 valkyrie fail2ban-server[4411]: 2023-11-29 15:56:51,030 
fail2ban.configreader   [4411]: WARNING 'allowipv6' not defined in 
'Definition'. Using default one: 'auto'
Nov 29 15:56:51 valkyrie fail2ban-server[4411]: Server ready

I'll keep looking, any other ideas (even typo type) send them along.


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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.