[Solved] Fail2Ban says: section 'sshd' already exists

[jasonnix]

Hello,
I installed Fail2Ban.And its service was not running. The service ran successfully when I added the following lines to the beginning of the configuration file:

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[sshd]
enabled = true

Now I want to configure Fail2Ban for SSH service and my settings are as follows:

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[sshd]
port    = ssh
logpath = %(sshd_log)s
backend = %(sshd_backend)s
maxretry  = 2
findtime  = 10
bantime   = 4w

When I restart the Fail2Ban service, I see the following error message:

[1313]: ERROR Failed during configuration: While reading from '/etc/fail2ban/jail.local' [line 275]: section 'sshd' already exists

How to solve it?

Thank you.

[jasonnix]

Hello,
I commented these two line:

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[sshd]
enabled = true

Then I changed the configuration as below:

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[sshd]
enabled = true
port    = ssh
logpath = %(sshd_log)s
backend = %(sshd_backend)s
maxretry  = 2
findtime  = 10
bantime   = 4w

After it, I got the error message Failed during configuration: Have not found any log file for sshd jail.
How to solve it?

[Aki]

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