I just spent 2 hours trying to figure out why fail2ban didn’t increment the ban count.

--- a/fail2ban/etc/fail2ban/jail.local
+++ b/fail2ban/etc/fail2ban/jail.local
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [DEFAULT]

-bantime.incremet     = true
+bantime.increment    = true
 bantime.rndtime      =
 bantime.maxtime      =
 bantime.factor       = 1

After I found that I seriously considered becoming a goose farmer.

  • frankenswine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    happens to the best. if fail2ban were any more resiliently engineered it would have failed to start due to the error in the config file

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      This is such an underutilized and neglected behavior.

      The very least a config parser should do is to log a warning.