diff --git a/modules/fail2ban/module.json b/modules/fail2ban/module.json
index df7d3bb..fcf27f3 100644
--- a/modules/fail2ban/module.json
+++ b/modules/fail2ban/module.json
@@ -28,13 +28,6 @@
       "path": "/etc/fail2ban/action.d",
       "mode": "0755"
     },
-    {
-      "id": "fail2ban-local",
-      "type": "file",
-      "path": "/etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.local",
-      "mode": "0644",
-      "content": "[Definition]\n\n# Where fail2ban writes its own log, declared rather than assumed. The recidive jail reads\n# this file to ban whoever keeps coming back, and the logrotate file this module ships\n# rotates it -- but nothing told fail2ban to write there. Where the package default stands,\n# fail2ban logs to the journal, the recidive jail finds no log file, and the whole service\n# refuses to start, taking the sshd jail with it.\n#\n# In .local, not in fail2ban.conf: that file belongs to the package.\nlogtarget = /var/log/fail2ban.log\n"
-    },
     {
       "id": "jail-local",
       "type": "file",
@@ -49,6 +42,14 @@
       "mode": "0644",
       "content": "[sshd]\nenabled = true\nport    = ssh\nlogpath = %(sshd_log)s\nbackend = %(sshd_backend)s\nmaxretry = 5\n"
     },
+    {
+      "id": "log",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "/var/log/fail2ban.log",
+      "mode": "0640",
+      "create-once": true,
+      "content": ""
+    },
     {
       "id": "jail-recidive",
       "type": "file",
@@ -77,7 +78,6 @@
       "state": "running",
       "boot": "enabled",
       "restart-on": [
-        "fail2ban-local",
         "jail-local",
         "jail-sshd",
         "jail-recidive",