Hi David, > With the `enable` instead of `enabled` fail2ban didn't spit out any > errors or complain, so there wasn't anything visible pointing me to my > screw-up... >From a quick glance, fail2ban uses Python's configparser module in two passes, each time looking for a set of things it knows. There is no pass which examines everything found for any unknowns thus no complaints about typos. I'd consider it a bug. fail2ban's authors may disagree. :-) -- Cheers, Ralph.