Unable to enable recidive jail in Fail2Ban

[martijnpeek]

Hi,

I am not able to enable the recidive jail in Fail2Ban. I get the following error:

Unable to switch on the selected jails: f2bmng failed: WARNING 'ignoreregex' not defined in 'Definition'. Using default one: ''
ERROR No file(s) found for glob /var/log/fail2ban.log
ERROR Failed during configuration: Have not found any log file for recidive jail
ERROR:f2bmng:Command '['/usr/bin/fail2ban-client', 'reload', 'recidive']' returned non-zero exit status 255
ERROR:f2bmng:Failed to reload following jails due to errors in configuration: recidive
.

There is indeed no /var/log/fail2ban.log, but I doubt that manually creating it will correctly fix this problem.

The problem is also discussed @ http://kb.odin.com/en/120961, but in my case I have not switched on jails before switching on fail2ban. Also, the given resolution does not work.

Can you help me?

 

[UFHH01]

touch /var/log/fail2ban.log​

...will create this log, if it wasn't created during the installation. Fail2ban will not start working untill this log exists.

 

[martijnpeek]

Ok, thank you. So the fact that it wasn't created during install is not indicating any problems?

 

[UFHH01]

If this log isn't created, you never had fail2ban working at all... this log is essential for fail2ban to start. Fail2ban will never start without this log and therefore no reports, bans, or even specific fail2ban - iptaples-chains. It is just not working at all without this log.