Upstream fail2ban 0.8.2 has a number of bugfixes which would be good to have, some of which have affected me. Full change log here: http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/ChangeLog
fail2ban-0.8.2-12.fc7 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 7
fail2ban-0.8.2-12.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8
Please test this update once it becomes available in the updates-testing repo. When reporting to this bug, please do also mention for which Fedora release you report (F7, F8 or rawhide/F9). Thanks!
*** Bug 251580 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Just downloaded and installed the latest package from koji on Fedora 8 and fail2ban would not start. Starting it manually reveals that it is trying to create the pid file /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid, but the /var/run/fail2ban folder is missing. Creating that folder owned by root with the mask 755 gets things working. I think that this may create issues during the upgrade process unless the upgrade process stops fail2ban before upgrading the files and it will then be looking for the pid file in /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid to shut it down the next time you want to stop the old process so it won't be able to shut it down.
There is a failsafe in the startup script that doesn't depend on the location of the pid, but does rather query the kernel's pid table. It doesn't yet nuke the old fail2ban based on this pid, and maybe it should - but it does return a failure if the restart didn't actually kill the old fail2ban process. So at least we're partially covered. The init scripts needs a heavy review anyway to make it LSB compliant (there is a separate bug entry for that).
fail2ban-0.8.2-13.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update fail2ban'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F7/FEDORA-2008-2527
fail2ban-0.8.2-13.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
fail2ban-0.8.2-13.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.