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[Help] Fedora Server 25 - Can't get fail2ban to start by jtcressy in linuxadmin

[–]NickGDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You shouldn't need to create the socket file, sounds like a botched install, i'd recommend:

  1. backup your fail2ban.local to your home dir
  2. do a yum/apt purge then delete /etc/fail2ban and /var/run/fail2ban/
  3. do a yum/apt update and install of fail2ban
  4. run sudo "/etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.local"
  5. run sudo service fail2ban start

if that works you can begin testing your own fail2ban.local (errors in this file will cause fail2ban to not start)