I'm on Ubuntu 16.04 running on AWS EC2 and thought that fail2ban was
running, but:
root@fqdn.subdomain:/var/log#
root@fqdn.subdomain:/var/log#
root@fqdn.subdomain:/var/log# systemctl status fail2ban.service
● fail2ban.service - Fail2Ban Service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fail2ban.service; enabled; vendor
preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead) (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2017-01-11
11:29:08 UTC; 1min 52s ago
Docs: man:fail2ban(1)
Process: 8804 ExecStart=/usr/bin/fail2ban-client -x start (code=exited,
status=255)
Jan 11 11:29:08 fqdn.long systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Control process
exited, code=exited status=255
Jan 11 11:29:08 fqdn.long systemd[1]: Failed to start Fail2Ban Service.
Jan 11 11:29:08 fqdn.long systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Unit entered
failed state.
Jan 11 11:29:08 fqdn.long systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
Jan 11 11:29:08 fqdn.long systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Service hold-off
time over, scheduling restart.
Jan 11 11:29:08 fqdn.long systemd[1]: Stopped Fail2Ban Service.
Jan 11 11:29:08 fqdn.long systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Start request
repeated too quickly.
Jan 11 11:29:08 fqdn.long systemd[1]: Failed to start Fail2Ban Service.
root@fqdn.subdomain:/var/log#
root@fqdn.subdomain:/var/log#
root@fqdn.subdomain:/var/log# systemctl start fail2ban.service
Job for fail2ban.service failed because the control process exited with
error code. See "systemctl status fail2ban.service" and "journalctl -xe"
for details.
root@fqdn.subdomain:/var/log#
root@fqdn.subdomain:/var/log# journalctl -xe
Jan 11 11:31:18 fqdn.long systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
Jan 11 11:31:18 fqdn.long systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Service hold-off
time over, scheduling restart.
Jan 11 11:31:18 fqdn.long systemd[1]: Stopped Fail2Ban Service.
-- Subject: Unit fail2ban.service has finished shutting down
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit fail2ban.service has finished shutting down.
Jan 11 11:31:18 fqdn.long systemd[1]: Starting Fail2Ban Service...
-- Subject: Unit fail2ban.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit fail2ban.service has begun starting up.
Jan 11 11:31:18 fqdn.long fail2ban-client[8834]: ERROR Failed
fqdn.subdomaining configuration: While reading from '/etc/fail2ban/jail.co
Jan 11 11:31:18 fqdn.long systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Control process
exited, code=exited status=255
Jan 11 11:31:18 fqdn.long systemd[1]: Failed to start Fail2Ban Service.
-- Subject: Unit fail2ban.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit fail2ban.service has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.
Jan 11 11:31:18 fqdn.long systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Unit entered
failed state.
Jan 11 11:31:18 fqdn.long systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
Jan 11 11:31:18 fqdn.long systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Service hold-off
time over, scheduling restart.
Jan 11 11:31:18 fqdn.long systemd[1]: Stopped Fail2Ban Service.
-- Subject: Unit fail2ban.service has finished shutting down
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit fail2ban.service has finished shutting down.
Jan 11 11:31:18 fqdn.long systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Start request
repeated too quickly.
Jan 11 11:31:18 fqdn.long systemd[1]: Failed to start Fail2Ban Service.
-- Subject: Unit fail2ban.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit fail2ban.service has failed.
--
-- The result is failed.
root@fqdn.subdomain:/var/log#
root@fqdn.subdomain:/var/log#
I'm not understanding nor seeing what the problem actually is. Is there
an error code I don't see?
thanks,
Thufir
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