Details
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Type:
New Feature
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Status: Done
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Resolution: Done
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Affects Version/s: None
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Fix Version/s: None
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Labels:None
Description
Somewhere in the startup scripts...it is deleting /var/run/fail2ban/
which is causing fail2ban to not start unless you manually make the directory.
On a reboot the directory is deleted again.
NING 'action' not defined in 'php-url-fopen'. Using default value
WARNING 'action' not defined in 'lighttpd-fastcgi'. Using default value
2017-11-02 12:43:26,365 fail2ban.server : INFO Starting Fail2ban v0.8.4
2017-11-02 12:43:26,365 fail2ban.server : INFO Starting in daemon mode
ERROR Could not start server. Maybe an old socket file is still present. Try to remove /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock. If you used fail2ban-client to start the server, adding the -x option will do it
[root@ip-172-31-58-183 centos]# ls /var/run/fail2ban
ls: cannot access /var/run/fail2ban: No such file or directory
[root@ip-172-31-58-183 centos]# ls /var/run/fail2ban
ls: cannot access /var/run/fail2ban: No such file or directory
[root@ip-172-31-58-183 centos]# mkdir /var/run/fail2ban/
[root@ip-172-31-58-183 centos]# service fail2ban start