FreePBX 17 Fail2ban not starting

FreePBX Security
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Running FreePBX 17.0.19.13
All I did was add a few email addresses to the fail2ban notify such as email1, email2, email3 and now fail2ban will not start.

root@kww:/var/log/asterisk# fwconsole start fail2ban
Running FreePBX startup…
Taking too long? Customize the chown command, See https://sangomakb.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FP/pages/10289397/FreePBX+Chown+Conf
Setting Permissions…
Setting base permissions…Done in 1 seconds
Setting specific permissions…
15047 [============================]
Finished setting permissions
Unable to run Pre-Asterisk hooks, because Asterisk is already running on PID 1775 and has been running for 27 minutes, 35 seconds

root@kww:/var/log/asterisk# systemctl -l status fail2ban
× fail2ban.service - Fail2Ban Service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fail2ban.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2024-10-07 23:08:33 EDT; 4min 46s ago
Duration: 63ms
Docs: man:fail2ban(1)
Process: 11935 ExecStart=/usr/bin/fail2ban-server -xf start (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)
Main PID: 11935 (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)
CPU: 58ms

Oct 07 23:08:33 serveraddress fail2ban-server[11935]: 2024-10-07 23:08:33,911 fail2ban.jailsreader [11935]: ERROR Errors in jail ‘apache-api’. Skipping…
Oct 07 23:08:33 serveraddress fail2ban-server[11935]: 2024-10-07 23:08:33,911 fail2ban.jailreader [11935]: ERROR Invalid action definition ‘sendmail[name=openvpn,’: unexpected option syntax
Oct 07 23:08:33 serveraddress fail2ban-server[11935]: 2024-10-07 23:08:33,911 fail2ban.jailsreader [11935]: ERROR Errors in jail ‘openvpn’. Skipping…
Oct 07 23:08:33 serveraddress fail2ban-server[11935]: 2024-10-07 23:08:33,912 fail2ban.jailreader [11935]: ERROR Invalid action definition ‘sendmail[name=sng-deskapp,’: unexpected option syntax
Oct 07 23:08:33 serveraddress fail2ban-server[11935]: 2024-10-07 23:08:33,912 fail2ban.jailsreader [11935]: ERROR Errors in jail ‘sng-deskapp’. Skipping…
Oct 07 23:08:33 serveraddress fail2ban-server[11935]: 2024-10-07 23:08:33,913 fail2ban.jailreader [11935]: ERROR Invalid action definition ‘sendmail[name=recidive,’: unexpected option syntax
Oct 07 23:08:33 serveraddress fail2ban-server[11935]: 2024-10-07 23:08:33,913 fail2ban.jailsreader [11935]: ERROR Errors in jail ‘recidive’. Skipping…
Oct 07 23:08:33 serveraddress fail2ban-server[11935]: 2024-10-07 23:08:33,917 fail2ban [11935]: ERROR Async configuration of server failed
Oct 07 23:08:33 serveraddress systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
Oct 07 23:08:33 serveraddress systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.

any help appreciated.

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Is there a way I can edit fail2ban and remove those addresses so that it will start again?

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well, after troubleshooting for over an hour, I just typed fwconsole restart and it came up. lol

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Restarted the system and it is at the same point again now. Appears to be something with the jail
I am running the latest fpbx17

root@kww:~# /usr/bin/fail2ban-client -x start
2024-10-10 23:12:43,854 fail2ban.configreader [15403]: WARNING ‘allowipv6’ not defined in ‘Definition’. Using default one: ‘auto’
2024-10-10 23:12:43,857 fail2ban.jailreader [15403]: ERROR Invalid action definition ‘sendmail[name=sshd,’: unexpected option syntax
2024-10-10 23:12:43,857 fail2ban.jailsreader [15403]: ERROR Errors in jail ‘sshd’. Skipping…
2024-10-10 23:12:43,859 fail2ban.jailreader [15403]: ERROR Invalid action definition ‘sendmail[name=SIP,’: unexpected option syntax
2024-10-10 23:12:43,859 fail2ban.jailsreader [15403]: ERROR Errors in jail ‘asterisk-iptables’. Skipping…
2024-10-10 23:12:43,859 fail2ban.jailreader [15403]: ERROR Invalid action definition ‘sendmail[name=PBX-GUI,’: unexpected option syntax
2024-10-10 23:12:43,859 fail2ban.jailsreader [15403]: ERROR Errors in jail ‘pbx-gui’. Skipping…
2024-10-10 23:12:43,860 fail2ban.jailreader [15403]: ERROR Invalid action definition ‘sendmail[name=SSH,’: unexpected option syntax
2024-10-10 23:12:43,861 fail2ban.jailsreader [15403]: ERROR Errors in jail ‘ssh-iptables’. Skipping…
2024-10-10 23:12:43,862 fail2ban.jailreader [15403]: ERROR Invalid action definition ‘sendmail[name=apache-auth,’: unexpected option syntax
2024-10-10 23:12:43,862 fail2ban.jailsreader [15403]: ERROR Errors in jail ‘apache-tcpwrapper’. Skipping…
2024-10-10 23:12:43,862 fail2ban.jailreader [15403]: ERROR Invalid action definition ‘sendmail[name=FTP,’: unexpected option syntax
2024-10-10 23:12:43,862 fail2ban.jailsreader [15403]: ERROR Errors in jail ‘vsftpd-iptables’. Skipping…
2024-10-10 23:12:43,863 fail2ban.jailreader [15403]: ERROR Invalid action definition ‘sendmail[name=BadBots,’: unexpected option syntax
2024-10-10 23:12:43,863 fail2ban.jailsreader [15403]: ERROR Errors in jail ‘apache-badbots’. Skipping…
2024-10-10 23:12:43,864 fail2ban.jailreader [15403]: ERROR Invalid action definition ‘sendmail[name=api,’: unexpected option syntax
2024-10-10 23:12:43,864 fail2ban.jailsreader [15403]: ERROR Errors in jail ‘apache-api’. Skipping…
2024-10-10 23:12:43,864 fail2ban.jailreader [15403]: ERROR Invalid action definition ‘sendmail[name=openvpn,’: unexpected option syntax
2024-10-10 23:12:43,864 fail2ban.jailsreader [15403]: ERROR Errors in jail ‘openvpn’. Skipping…
2024-10-10 23:12:43,865 fail2ban.jailreader [15403]: ERROR Invalid action definition ‘sendmail[name=sng-deskapp,’: unexpected option syntax
2024-10-10 23:12:43,865 fail2ban.jailsreader [15403]: ERROR Errors in jail ‘sng-deskapp’. Skipping…
2024-10-10 23:12:43,866 fail2ban.jailreader [15403]: ERROR Invalid action definition ‘sendmail[name=recidive,’: unexpected option syntax
2024-10-10 23:12:43,866 fail2ban.jailsreader [15403]: ERROR Errors in jail ‘recidive’. Skipping…

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Hi

Please, try to open a ticket here.

or

If it’s a bug, it will be fixed here.

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I was able to get fail2ban working by editing /etc/fail2ban/jail.local and removing all the different email addresses. I replaced them with just one and fail2ban would start normally.

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