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fail2ban Said 218 Bans. It Had Blocked Nothing
fail2ban logged 218 bans and blocked nobody. An actionless jail, a reload that said OK, a dead allow rule and a blind log watch, and the checks that work.
A Cron Job That Fired 8,073 Times and Never Ran
Four ways scheduled jobs in our product stopped running without an error: a step that killed the rest, unread failures, a host move and an unwritable log.
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fail2ban Said 218 Bans. It Had Blocked Nothing
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