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jschoubben 7c18cdbd39 fail2ban: declare the log its own recidive jail reads
The recidive jail bans whoever keeps coming back by reading fail2ban's own
log, and fail2ban checks every jail's log file while it configures itself --
before it has created that log. On a machine where the file is not there
already, no jail is found for recidive, configuration fails, and the whole
service refuses to start, taking the sshd jail with it. Two machines assigned
this module today came up failed for exactly that reason; the two where it
worked had a log from years of the service running.

Declared create-once: the mesh puts an empty file there when it is absent and
never touches it again, because what grows in it is fail2ban's, and the
logrotate file this module already ships is what keeps it small.

This also reverts the previous two commits' fail2ban.local. It declared a
logtarget that the package already sets to the same path on every machine
here -- pacman reports the config pristine -- so it fixed nothing and said
something untrue about why.
2026-09-28 20:45:32 +02:00
mesh-admin 4fb16b2e6b Merge pull request 'fail2ban restarts when the log declaration changes' (#133) from fix/fail2ban-restarts-on-its-log-target into main 2026-09-28 18:42:44 +00:00
jschoubben c5af8635c8 fail2ban: restart when the log declaration changes
The file that says where fail2ban logs was not in restart-on, so a change to
it would sit on disk with the running service unaware of it -- the same shape
as any other jail file this module already restarts for.
2026-09-28 20:42:42 +02:00
mesh-admin 87366c5f36 Merge pull request 'fail2ban declares where it logs, so the recidive jail has a file to read' (#132) from fix/fail2ban-declares-where-it-logs into main 2026-09-28 18:41:16 +00:00
jschoubben f8ca36aacf fail2ban: declare where it logs, so the recidive jail has a file to read
The recidive jail reads /var/log/fail2ban.log and this module ships the
logrotate file for it, but nothing ever told fail2ban to write there. Where
the package default stands, fail2ban logs to the journal, the recidive jail
finds no log file, and the whole service refuses to start -- taking the sshd
jail with it. Two machines assigned this module today came up failed; the two
where it worked had /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf edited by hand, which a
package upgrade would have undone.

Declared in fail2ban.local, because fail2ban.conf belongs to the package.
2026-09-28 20:41:09 +02:00
mesh-admin 812355bf31 Merge pull request 'The catalogue hears what it missed' (#131) from feat/the-catalogue-hears-what-it-missed into main 2026-09-28 14:08:48 +00:00
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"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",