Re: F15: fail2ban not in iptables status

[Arthur Dent]

On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 09:08 -0400, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:05 AM, sguazt 
> wrote:
>         On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 3:30 PM, sguazt
>          wrote:
>     Hi,
>     Still have problems. Under /var/log/messages I've this
>     message:
>
>     fail2ban.comm   : WARNING Invalid command: ['add',
>     'ssh-iptables', 'auto']
>
>     Don't know if it is related to my problem.
>
>     Anyway, I am the only one that has this problem (or that runs
>     fail2ban ;) )?

Yes I had this exact problem.

It's an SELinux problem. Put SELinux into permissive mode
# setenforce 0
and then restart F2B. It should start up, but you'll get a bunch of SEL
AVCs. From these you can build a policy and turn SEL back to Enforcing.

F2B and SEL have always caused me problems. With the help of the selinux
mailing list I once tried to get to the bottom of it. Now I just give up
and create a policy allowing everything that audit2allow says it
needs...

Mark