Currently (and by default) fail2ban writes to its own log file at /var/log/fail2ban.log. However, simply changing the /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf config file to logtarget = SYSLOG will make it log to syslog. I've tested it and it works just fine. This has several big advantages. There's no need for a separate logrotate configuration file. More importantly, it works with remote logging with no further magic -- you can just send the information to a standard log server.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
fail2ban doesn't work properly on python 2.6, I think this is just another duplicate of bug #508171.
(In reply to comment #2) > fail2ban doesn't work properly on python 2.6, I think this is just another > duplicate of bug #508171. Please ignore this comment, it was intended for bug 498149.
fail2ban-0.8.3-21.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fail2ban-0.8.3-21.fc10
fail2ban-0.8.3-21.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fail2ban-0.8.3-21.fc11
fail2ban-0.8.3-21.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 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/F10/FEDORA-2009-9094
fail2ban-0.8.3-21.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 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/F11/FEDORA-2009-9103
fail2ban-0.8.3-22.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
fail2ban-0.8.4-23.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fail2ban-0.8.4-23.fc11
fail2ban-0.8.4-23.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fail2ban-0.8.4-23.fc10
fail2ban-0.8.4-23.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
fail2ban-0.8.4-23.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.