Recently, I have tried restarting Fail2ban
and I have received an error, making it impossible to start... The full error I received from systemctl status fail2ban
is as follows:
Jan 03 18:27:02 nerdofcode.com systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=255
Jan 03 18:27:02 nerdofcode.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Fail2Ban Service.
Jan 03 18:27:02 nerdofcode.com systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jan 03 18:27:02 nerdofcode.com systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 03 18:27:02 nerdofcode.com systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jan 03 18:27:02 nerdofcode.com systemd[1]: Stopped Fail2Ban Service.
Jan 03 18:27:02 nerdofcode.com systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jan 03 18:27:02 nerdofcode.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Fail2Ban Service.
Jan 03 18:27:02 nerdofcode.com systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jan 03 18:27:02 nerdofcode.com systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
The full output of cat /var/log/fail2ban.log
is:
2018-01-03 18:06:28,337 fail2ban.server [25119]: INFO
Exiting Fail2ban
I would appreciate any suggestions or solutions towards this issue.
/var/log/fail2ban.log
?systemctl status fail2ban
/var/log/fail2ban.log
. Hopefully it will give you a detailed trace of the reason of failure.