Anyone have any ideas?
On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 11:07 PM, OwN-3m-All <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've configured fail2ban on multiple servers to send an email message when
> an IP address is banned. However, on one of my servers running Ubuntu
> 12.04 LTS, I do NOT receive an email notification when an IP address is
> banned. There is no trace of any message being sent in the mail log to the
> destination email address I have configured. I have verified that my
> sendmail path is what fail2ban expects:
>
> # which sendmail
> /usr/sbin/sendmail
>
> In jail.local, I have the following settings:
>
> # The simplest action to take: ban only
> action_ = %(banaction)s[name=%(__name__)s, port="%(port)s",
> protocol="%(protocol)s]
>
> # ban & send an e-mail with whois report to the destemail.
> action_mw = %(banaction)s[name=%(__name__)s, port="%(port)s",
> protocol="%(protocol)s]
> %(mta)s-whois[name=%(__name__)s, dest="%(destemail)s",
> protocol="%(protocol)s]
>
> # ban & send an e-mail with whois report and relevant log lines
> # to the destemail.
> action_mwl = %(banaction)s[name=%(__name__)s, port="%(port)s",
> protocol="%(protocol)s]
> %(mta)s-whois-lines[name=%(__name__)s, dest="%(destemail)s",
> logpath=%(logpath)s]
>
> # Choose default action. To change, just override value of 'action' with
> the
> # interpolation to the chosen action shortcut (e.g. action_mw,
> action_mwl, etc) in jail.local
> # globally (section [DEFAULT]) or per specific section
> # action = %(action_)s
> action = %(action_mwl)s
>
> # "ignoreip" can be an IP address, a CIDR mask or a DNS host
> ignoreip = 127.0.0.1
> bantime = -1
> maxretry = 8
>
> # "backend" specifies the backend used to get files modification. Available
> # options are "gamin", "polling" and "auto".
> # yoh: For some reason Debian shipped python-gamin didn't work as expected
> # This issue left ToDo, so polling is default backend for now
> backend = polling
>
> #
> # Destination email address used solely for the interpolations in
> # jail.{conf,local} configuration files.
> destemail = (THIS_EMAIL_ADDRESS)
>
>
> I have tried both action_mw and action_mwl. Neither result in an email
> message being sent. I cannot figure out why it isn't working on this
> server. It works just fine on my other servers, and they are all
> configured similarly.
>
> Email is working on this server, as the following command results in an
> email being sent:
>
> echo "test message" | mailx -s 'test subject' [email protected]
>
> Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? I appreciate any help. I'm
> running Fail2ban v0.8.6
>
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