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On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 9:45 PM, <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I have fail2ban set up and it works quite well, except for the fact that |
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> whenever it sends me an Email, it always sends two copies. Every night |
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> when the logs rotate, it does this twice, once when t stops and once |
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> when it restarts, and when it bans an ip it also sends two emails saying |
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> so. |
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> any ideas as to why this is so and how to fix? |
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> Thanks in advance for any sugggestions. |
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The emails when the service is stopped and started can be disabled in |
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/etc/fail2ban/action.d/mail.conf (comment out the actionstart and |
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actionstop sections). |
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If you get multiple emails when someone is banned, it sounds like you |
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have more than one rule enabled that is being triggered by the same |
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event. For example, I think in the default jail.conf there's an ssh |
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rule that bans in the firewall as well as an ssh rule that writes to |
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hosts.deny. |
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I disabled all of the email alerts from fail2ban because I was getting |
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dozens up to hundreds of them per day, it seemed to be functioning |
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properly, and I was basically flooding my inbox. :) |
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