It definitely won't be a buggy version of f2b :-)
You're going through the awful, painful "setup" period. Because it's new
for you, you're probably making all sorts of little mistakes. Trust me - I
made hundreds.
If you've got time to keep mailing back and forth, we can all try to sort
these issues out. Maybe we won't fix it all tonight but we can keep trying.
On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 20:03, Wayne Sallee <[email protected]> wrote:
> I already tried both methods, and even tried spaces after the line.
> Maybe I got a buggy version of Fail2Ban.
>
> Wayne Sallee
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>
> On 08/10/2018 02:43 PM, Tony Collins wrote:
>
> Thank you for the information.
>
> Ok, I think you mentioned that the semi-colon doesn't work either. But I'd
> like to check.
>
> Can you tell me if this works:
>
> [apache-overflows]
> enabled = true
> port = http,https
> logpath = /var/log/apache2/error.log;/var/log/apache2/error2.log
> maxretry = 2
>
> So, no spaces between the two file paths/names, just a ;
>
> Also I think maybe you might need an extra space if you use the "newline"
> method. I think I forgot to say this!
>
> Does this work:
>
> [apache-overflows]
> enabled = true
> port = http,https
> logpath = /var/log/apache2/error.log
> /var/log/apache2/error2.log
> maxretry = 2
>
> Note that when I pressed enter at the end of the "logpath" line, I then
> typed a space before I typed "/var/log/apache2/error2.log
>
> Please try both of those. Fail2ban is very "fussy" about its configuration
> files. I have made so many errors while writing configuration files. It is
> painful!
>
> Tony
>
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 19:38, Wayne Sallee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> For example this will error:
>>
>> [apache-overflows]
>> enabled = true
>> port = http,https
>> logpath = /var/log/apache2/error.log
>> /var/log/apache2/error2.log
>> maxretry = 2
>>
>>
>> ERROR Failed during configuration: Source contains parsing errors:
>> '/etc/fail2ban/jail.local'
>> [line 883]: '/var/log/apache2/error2.log\n'
>>
>>
>> But this will not error:
>>
>> [apache-overflows]
>> enabled = true
>> port = http,https
>> logpath = /var/log/apache2/error.log
>> maxretry = 2
>>
>> And this will not error:
>>
>> [apache-overflows]
>> enabled = true
>> port = http,https
>> logpath = /var/log/apache2/error2.log
>> maxretry = 2
>>
>>
>> /var/log/apache2/error2.log is a substitute name.
>>
>>
>> Wayne Sallee
>> [email protected]
>> http://www.WayneSallee.com
>>
>>
>> On 08/10/2018 02:14 PM, Tony Collins wrote:
>>
>> Maybe there is a small mistake somewhere in the configuration?
>>
>> Please paste the jail's configuration here - we will use "fresh eyes" to
>> see if we can find the problem :-)
>>
>> On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 19:05, Wayne Sallee <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I figured that was it, but then wondered surely he knows it's disabled.
>>> :-)
>>> I thought spacing was working before, but it's not, nether does ";" and
>>> nether does a new line. So I just put the others on new lines, and
>>> commented them out. That works :-) sortof :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> Wayne Sallee
>>> [email protected]
>>> http://www.WayneSallee.com
>>>
>>
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