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On Centos 7 I was struggling with fail2ban on different vm templates eg. OpenVZ and KVM. Previous post is about OpenVZ problems (not only about fail2ban) to which I could not find a solution yet. Now I would say some words about KVM instance. fail2ban 0.9.2 was running on Centos 7.1.1503 with systemd backend. I was struggling to ban failed ssh attempts with the following config options in jail.local file [DEFAULT] backend = systemd banaction = firewallcmd-ipset bantime = 3600 [sshd] enabled = true Nothing seemed to be wrong with these options and log files. But I was getting an error like this ERROR   ipset create fail2ban-sshd hash:ip timeout 3600 firewall-cmd --direct --add-rule  filter INPUT 0 -p tcp -m multiport -m set --match-set fail2ban-sshd src -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable -- stdout: '\x1b[91mwrong priority\nusage: --direct --add-rule { ipv4 | ipv6 | eb } \x1b[00m\n' As is easily seen, this is an error about ipset command whi...

I am having trouble with this minimal installs. Although I have heard that Centos 7 has some issues with OpenVZ minimal template, I planned to use it with some struggle. First problem I encounter is about misconfiguration of network cards in this OpenVZ template. Here is the offical bug report and here is a solution for the template. One needs to make an ethernet device up everytime after reboot if he did not have installed this patch to OpenVZ template using a command like this ifup ifcfg-venet0    or a temporary solution is adding  ARPCHECK="no" line to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-venet0:0 for my case which survives until next reboot. Second issue is about fail2ban and various system logs. Banning failed ssh attempts is a common task of a system administrator. Fail2ban seems to work in case all ssh logs are streamed to file /var/log/secure. Unfortunately in Centos 7 minimal installs ssh logs are not streamed to this file. Actually there are very f...