Fedora 8 Update: fail2ban-0.8.2-13.fc8

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-2528
2008-03-26 16:48:37
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Name        : fail2ban
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 0.8.2
Release     : 13.fc8
URL         : http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net/
Summary     : Ban IPs that make too many password failures
Description :
Fail2ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or
/var/log/apache/error_log and bans IP that makes too many password
failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address.

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ChangeLog:

* Sun Mar 16 2008 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> - 0.8.2-13
- Add %{_localstatedir}/run/fail2ban (David Rees).
* Fri Mar 14 2008 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> - 0.8.2-12
- Update to 0.8.2.
* Thu Jan 31 2008 Jonathan G. Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> - 0.8.1-11
- Move socket file from /tmp to /var/run to prevent SElinux from stopping
  fail2ban from starting (BZ #429281)
- Change logic in init file to start with -x to remove the socket file in case
  of unclean shutdown
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #437442 - New upstream fail2ban 0.8.2 has a number of bugfixes
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=437442
  [ 2 ] Bug #251580 - fail2ban wakes up 28 times a second
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=251580
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update fail2ban' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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