Mystery solved. Debian defaults to sshd enabled :) # cat jail.d/defaults-debian.conf [sshd] enabled = true
I’ll move my changes into jail.local. Many thanks for your help Rene. Night, Sophie > On 13 Mar 2018, at 23:46, René Berber <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 3/13/2018 4:39 PM, Sophie Loewenthal wrote: > >> Changed it to this in jail.conf and restarted and dovecot jail is not active. > > Side note: you shouldn't use jail.conf, use your own jail.local > (jail.conf gets overwritten on version update). > >> [dovecot] >> enable = true >> port = imap,imaps,sieve >> logpath = %(syslog_mail)s >> backend = %(dovecot_backend)s >> >> # fail2ban-client status >> Status >> |- Number of jail: 3 >> `- Jail list: nginx-x00, postfix-auth, sshd >> >> I don’t think I follow the enabled= logic well :( > > There's no problem in the above configuration, it should have started. > > Have you checked /etc/fail2ban/jail.d, there may be something in there. > I have a defaults-debian.conf (which disables sshd). > > OK just saw your last message, at least it is working now, no idea where > the jail was disabled. > -- > René Berber > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Fail2ban-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Fail2ban-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users
