[users] fail2ban upgrade challenge

[John Thomas]

John Thomas wrote:
> I don't know much.  I noticed the fail2ban.conf file has moved socket= 
> /tmp/fail2ban.sock to /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock and 
> /var/run/fail2ban/ does not exist.  I tried creating /var/run/fail2ban/, 
> but that did not help.  I am guessing a permission issue, but don't know 
> where to start.

I did a bit more digging and made some headway, I think the following works.

1. service fail2ban stop
2. yum update
3. mkdir /var/run/fail2ban
4. service fail2ban start

Also, I think there now an error in:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/fail2ban
the line:
rm -rf /tmp/fail2ban.sock # in case of unclean shutdown
should be:
rm -rf /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock # in case of unclean shutdown

-- 
Sincerely,
John Thomas