http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606238 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606238#c0 Summary: fail2ban's init script fails to restart the service Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jens.grabinger@lse.eei.uni-erlangen.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 SUSE/3.6.3-1.2 Firefox/3.6.3 One can notice the problem from the following commands that I executed on the console: lse80:~ # rcfail2ban start Starting fail2ban WARNING 'action' not defined in 'php-url-fopen'. Using default value WARNING 'action' not defined in 'lighttpd-fastcgi'. Using default value done 2010-05-16 14:51:46,596 fail2ban.server : INFO Starting Fail2ban v0.8.4 2010-05-16 14:51:46,601 fail2ban.server : INFO Starting in daemon mode lse80:~ # ps -ef | grep fail2ban root 24307 1 1 14:51 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/fail2ban-server -b -s /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock root 24314 24160 0 14:51 pts/1 00:00:00 grep fail2ban lse80:~ # rcfail2ban status Checking for service fail2ban unused lse80:~ # rcfail2ban restart Shutting down fail2ban done Starting fail2ban done Shutdown successful lse80:~ # ps -ef | grep fail2ban root 24361 24160 0 14:52 pts/1 00:00:00 grep fail2ban Starting the service works as expected. After that I can find the fail2ban-server process using ps, but 'rcfail2ban status' reports that it is unused. Not nice, but does not hurt as long as it is running. The real problem occurs if I let fail2ban restart. 'rcfail2ban restart' reports that is was restarted successfully. But ps says there is no server process. I think, the bug in the init script is that we define FAIL2BAN_BIN=/usr/bin/fail2ban-client. This is OK for starting and stopping the service. But when we check for the status with '/sbin/checkproc $FAIL2BAN_BIN', the client process is never running, of course. Instead we should call checkproc on the fail2ban-server process. Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.