I followed the instructions for installing and configuring fail2ban here
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fail2ban> . I rebooted, and got the log
entry below - a similar outcome, with sudo systemctl restart fail2ban:
mylogin@myvps:~$ sudo more /var/log/fail2ban.log
2021-07-21 19:58:47,133 fail2ban.server [376236]: INFO
--------------------------------------------------
2021-07-21 19:58:47,133 fail2ban.server [376236]: INFO Starting
Fail2ban v0.11.1
2021-07-21 19:58:47,134 fail2ban.observer [376236]: INFO Observer
start...
2021-07-21 19:58:47,205 fail2ban.database [376236]: INFO Connected
to fail2ban persistent database '/var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3'
2021-07-21 19:58:47,210 fail2ban.database [376236]: WARNING New
database created. Version '4'
2021-07-21 19:58:47,211 fail2ban.jail [376236]: INFO Creating
new jail 'sshd'
2021-07-21 19:58:47,242 fail2ban.jail [376236]: INFO Jail
'sshd' uses pyinotify {}
2021-07-21 19:58:47,249 fail2ban.jail [376236]: INFO Initiated
'pyinotify' backend
2021-07-21 19:58:47,251 fail2ban.filter [376236]: INFO
maxLines: 1
2021-07-21 19:58:47,277 fail2ban.filter [376236]: INFO
maxRetry: 5
2021-07-21 19:58:47,277 fail2ban.filter [376236]: INFO
findtime: 600
2021-07-21 19:58:47,278 fail2ban.actions [376236]: INFO banTime:
600
2021-07-21 19:58:47,278 fail2ban.filter [376236]: INFO
encoding: UTF-8
2021-07-21 19:58:47,278 fail2ban.filter [376236]: INFO Added
logfile: '/var/log/auth.log' (pos = 0, hash = 50c23a282ae914c87f53e8ada9f5
516498f74095)
2021-07-21 19:58:47,283 fail2ban.jail [376236]: INFO Jail
'sshd' started
2021-07-21 20:11:24,421 fail2ban.server [376236]: INFO Shutdown
in progress...
2021-07-21 20:11:24,422 fail2ban.observer [376236]: INFO Observer
stop ... try to end queue 5 seconds
2021-07-21 20:11:24,443 fail2ban.observer [376236]: INFO Observer
stopped, 0 events remaining.
2021-07-21 20:11:24,483 fail2ban.server [376236]: INFO Stopping
all jails
2021-07-21 20:11:24,483 fail2ban.filter [376236]: INFO Removed
logfile: '/var/log/auth.log'
2021-07-21 20:11:24,668 fail2ban.actions [376236]: NOTICE [sshd]
Flush ticket(s) with iptables-multiport
2021-07-21 20:11:25,084 fail2ban.jail [376236]: INFO Jail
'sshd' stopped
2021-07-21 20:11:25,085 fail2ban.database [376236]: INFO Connection
to database closed.
2021-07-21 20:11:25,087 fail2ban.server [376236]: INFO Exiting
Fail2ban
Could someone advise on next steps to diagnose? adTHANKSvance. -Dan
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