d'oh me -- I've read your original incorrectly (that you applied patch and it didn't help ;-)) .
Just out of "research" -- could you please run in shell all 3 commands in a single line like iptables -N fail2ban-proftpd; iptables -A fail2ban-proftpd -j RETURN; iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports ftp,ftp-data,ftps,ftps-data -j fail2ban-proftpd I would really not expect some out of order execution from Python's os.system and it might be that real problem is buried deeper. On Tue, 03 Nov 2009, Libor Klepáč wrote: > Hi, > there seems to be some problem with sequence of commands run from python. > Maybe our server is too powerfull? (poweredge 2950 with two 4 core > processors, > old server was some old pentium4 with ht, there were no such problems) > If i run those commands separately from command line ,there is no problem. > But if whole (multiline) actionstart is run, there seems to be problem with > order of commands. > Problem is, that > iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports ftp,ftp-data,ftps,ftps-data -j > fail2ban-proftpd > is run in time, when there is no such chain, so kernel tries to autoload > module for it (but there is no such module) (you can try it by running this > command) -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org