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Help Here Applications fail2ban help Welcome! If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ. You will have to register before you can post in the forums. (Be aware the forums do not accept user names with a dash "-") Also, logging in lets you avoid the CAPTCHA verification when searching . Select Articles, Forum, or Blog. Posting in the Forums implies acceptance of the Terms and Conditions. Results 1 to 7 of 7 Thread: fail2ban help Thread Tools Show Printable Version Subscribe to this Thread… Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode 30-Oct-2008,01:23 #1 beccabeginner View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries View Articles Newcomer Join Date Oct 2008 Posts 8 fail2ban help I have installed the lastest version of fail2ban via yast2, in opensuse 10.3 I can not get the server to connect-it says; ERROR Unable to contact server. Is it running? even though all the files installed correctly! I am new to Linux and have Guarddog running as a firewall, any help would be great as im lost how to configure it for opensuse 10.3 so it will; -start on startup -run with no errors etc thank you! from becca Reply With Quote 30-Oct-2008,01:41 #2 deltaflyer44 View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries View Articles Shaman Penguin Join Date Jan 2008 Location U.K East Anglia Posts 2,595 Re: fail2ban help Have a look in YaST - System -System Services (Runlevel ) & make sure it is activated there Andy To be is to do = Immanuel Kant To do is to be = Descartes. Do be do be do = Frank Sinatra SuSE user since 7.0,Linux user since 1994 Reply With Quote 30-Oct-2008,02:49 #3 beccabeginner View Profile View Forum Posts View Blog Entries View Articles Newcomer Join Date Oct 2008 Posts 8 Re: fail2ban help hi andy i did what you said and i got the following message: to start service fail2ban and enable it at runlevels 3,5 these services must be additionally started and enabled, because it depends on them: boot.clock then it presents two options: continue exit I press continue then the following message comes up: /etc/init.d/boot.clock start returned 0 (success): /etc/init.d/fail2ban start returned 0 (success): I press okay then finish on the system services (runlevel) and it saves, but when i check status in the terminal with the following command; fail2ban-client status I get: ERROR Unable to contac