I have today received a yum update of Fail2Ban to 0.8.13-2.el5 However, when restarting there is an error reported in /usr/share/fail2ban/server/filterpyinotify.py The error relates to the line: Code: Select all except Exception as e: This requires an update to Python (currently at 2.4.3-56.el5 in the distribution). For now, I have amended the line to read: Code: Select all except Exception, e: But obviously the better answer would be to push the upgrade to Python which implements this syntax - but that may cause other issues
diff -u to implement suggested fix to syntax error below: # diff -u /usr/share/fail2ban/server/filterpyinotify.py~ /usr/share/fail2ban/server/filterpyinotify.py --- /usr/share/fail2ban/server/filterpyinotify.py~ 2014-03-15 01:14:36.000000000 -0700 +++ /usr/share/fail2ban/server/filterpyinotify.py 2014-08-18 19:39:51.000000000 -0700 @@ -211,6 +211,6 @@ def process_default(self, event): try: self.__FileFilter.callback(event, origin='Default ') - except Exception as e: + except Exception, e: logSys.error("Error in FilterPyinotify callback: %s", e, exc_info=logSys.getEffectiveLevel() <= logging.DEBUG)
fail2ban-0.8.14-1.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fail2ban-0.8.14-1.el5
Package fail2ban-0.8.14-1.el5: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=epel-testing fail2ban-0.8.14-1.el5' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2014-2262/fail2ban-0.8.14-1.el5 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Used 100% CPU and did not work. Gave errors: Starting fail2ban: WARNING 'action' not defined in 'php-url-fopen'. Using default one: '' WARNING 'action' not defined in 'lighttpd-fastcgi'. Using default one: '' Same config files work fine with fail2ban-0.8.10-4.el5
Nataraj - please attach your jail.conf
fail2ban-0.8.14-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.