[ale] ReSolved: Setting up fail2ban

John Mills johnmills at speakeasy.net
Thu Jun 19 14:14:44 EDT 2008


ALErs -

I installed 'gamin-0.1.9', cleaned up the notification e-mails in 
'jail.conf', and restarted fail2ban. Almost immediately it found and 
banned an attacker.  &8-)

Thanks to all who offered suggestions for this.

Cheers.
  - Mills

> I have installed 'fail2ban' on my Slackware box running 2.6.21.5 to divert
> a flood of attempts at guessed SSH logins, but I don't see it working:
> continuing flood of login attempts but no entries in
> /var/log/fail2ban.log.


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