By tonyweb
Hi,
It used to be different, as far as I remember, but for a while I noticed that the firewall rules added by Webmin don’t get added at reboot, and that fail2ban doesn’t start (most likely because var/run is cleaned up, and the dir var/run/fail2ban is removed at reboot.)
The init script of fail2ban even creates the dir, but still, no luck.
Now, I know, and when I restart I know what to do, but in the event the droplet restarts without my knowledge (as happened once) I may run into problems.
How can I get fail2ban running and the Webmin firewall rules applied after a restart?
TIA
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Ok, to answer my own question.
Since I installed fail2ban v 0.9.3 (best working for me) I had to copy the right startup script in /etc/init.d (debian-initd in the package)
(i had previous versions, and never noticed a wrong script there)
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