Hi Cyril, So what should we really do about locale problem? should we may be specify in the configuration?
but then how to allow it to be different for some section since
different daemons can be running under different locales, and if not
using syslog, they would have different timestamp locales. Or am I
wrong?
I doubt that we should keep it hardcoded to be locale.LC_ALL anyway...
Or should we finally implement automatic time data format matching also
sensing possible locales...? ;-)
Francois -- could you please send me exemplar lines of your log files
(including fail2ban log, auth.log, and apache.log/exim/postfix if you
have any of those) -- single line with timestamp would suffice.
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, francois wrote:
> Package: fail2ban
> Version: 0.6.1-1
> Severity: normal
> The default locale of my system is fr_FR.UTF-8, so fail2ban make errors when
> reading date and time in log files which contain names for month and day in
> English. For exemple I obtain in /var/log/fail2ban :
> 2006-04-18 21:27:26,915 ERROR: time data did not match format: data=Apr 18
> 21:26:41 fmt=%b %d %H:%M:%S
> 2006-04-18 21:27:26,915 ERROR: Please check the format and your locale
> settings.
> To by-pass the problem I change in /etc/init.d/fail2ban the line :
> start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
> --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
> by
> LANG=C start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
> --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
> It seems to work fine after that.
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Versions of packages fail2ban depends on:
> ii iptables 1.3.3-2 Linux kernel 2.4+ iptables
> adminis
> ii python 2.3.5-5 An interactive high-level
> object-o
> fail2ban recommends no packages.
> -- no debconf information
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