fail2ban + firewalld suggestions needed

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:36:38PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > because the journal isn't optional in Fedora. And I think I'd combine
> > mail and sendmail (because the /usr/sbin/sendmail command can be
> > provided by a lot of alternatives, including the very lightweight
> > ssmtp).
> Yeah, I probably should just add the systemd config file to the main
> package.
> The -mail actions explicitly depend on /usr/bin/mail command which is
> only provided by mailx as far as I can tell.

True, but I'm having trouble imaging a case where someone wants fail2ban and
an MTA but really objects to having mailx installed, or wants fail2ban and
mailx but really objects to an MTA.


> > And maybe hostsdeny should be part of the main server package, as it really
> > just manipulates /etc/hosts.deny, which is part of the mandatory 'setup'
> > package.
> Yeah, but there's and entertaining thread about removing it...

Which actually I think argues for not bothering to subpackage it, doesn't
it? It'll be either there or not.

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