Hello all,
Please be patient with me i am rather new to this stuff. I have encountered a problem during configuration of fail2ban in conjunction with azigen when following this guide: Increase Brute-Force Attack Protection - Fail2Ban Linux | Axigen.
I have altered the jail.local file as described. When issuing the following command: sudo fail2ban-client i got the following error:
fail2ban [2571]: ERROR Failed to access socket path: /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock. Is fail2ban running?
reading another guide:
i detected this guy omitted the first line in jail.local so i’ve put a hashtag in front of the first line. This resulted in the following output:
Status
|- Number of jail: 2
`- Jail list: axigen, sshd
I first thought this worked, but soon i found out no ip’s got banned.
What am i missing here,
Kind regards kees