On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 at 01:44, Daniel Seita <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > I am new to fail2ban and am trying to get it installed on one of my > systems. My goal is to limit how often others can ssh into the machine with > incorrect passwords. > > I posted my question on AskUbuntu: > > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/1099306/job-for-fail2ban-service-failed-because-the-control-process-exited-with-error > > since I thought it would be easier to visualize/format over there rather > than email, and since this can help others. But, since the GitHub suggests > that this mailing list is better for questions, I am also asking here. > > As shown in my question, I cannot start the service. There is an > interesting error message about the lack of a header in the jail.local > file, but I don't know if that is the issue. > > If you need any more information about my system and setup, I am happy to > provide them. > This is more easily answered on Ask Ubuntu and I think Terrance there has already given you the clue you need. BTW for sending emails, although OT, I would advise you to uninstall sendmail and instead install postfix (which has a 'sendmail' command alias anyway) or if you prefer exim. Sendmail itself is very little used these days. And, while OT, why install Ubuntu 16.04 not 18.04? 18.04 has the much-updated/improved fail2ban 0.10.2.
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