heh heh... wave came... this issue was already resolved
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=468382
upstream also released a patch and will release 0.8.2 soon which will
include it
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Taku YASUI wrote:
> Package: fail2ban
> Version: 0.8.1-4
> Severity: normal
> fail2ban cannot recognize leap-year day. You can find this problem as
> follows:
> 1. Up loglevel to 4 (DEBUG) on your fail2ban.conf
> 2. Following message is shown at your fail2ban.log
> 2008-02-29 06:26:37,548 fail2ban.filter : DEBUG Found a match but no valid
> date/time found for Feb 29 05:14:55 osdnns sshd[3776]: Invalid user users
> from 74.205.125.93
> . Please contact the author in order to get support for this format
> Maybe it causes at "server/datestrptime.py". python time.strptime() cannot
> recognize reap-year day when the year has not specified as follows:
> % python
> Python 2.4.4 (#2, Apr 5 2007, 20:11:18)
> [GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import time
> >>> time.strptime("Feb 29 05:14:55", "%b %d %H:%M:%S")
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/_strptime.py", line 425, in strptime
> julian = datetime_date(year, month, day).toordinal() - \
> ValueError: day is out of range for month
> Standard syslogd does not recorded year. Therefore fail2ban failed to
> recognize leap-year day.
> I've reported this problem to sf.net tracker:
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1904430&group_id=121032&atid=689044
> Thanks,
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