I get an error right after Fail2ban restart in Ubuntu 14.04

grigory

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Hello!

I've been having this little issue, after I've installed recently fail2ban on Ubuntu 14.04
Right after I restart fail2ban in the terminal I get an error message. Though I do get [OK], meaning that generally restart went OK. Still I wish to get rid of this probably minor issue. I get this error message:

Code:
WARNING  'ignoreregex' not defined in 'Definition'. Using default one: ''
After some googling, I found a possible solution. Which is to add this:

Code:
ignoreregex =
to fail2ban conf files in /etc/fail2ban/filter.d directory
I've checked all the conf files there and I've seen that line in all of them, EXCEPT for one, which is postfix-sasl.conf
I have to add that [sasl] jail is enabled in my jail.local file

So my question is whether the solution is correct and also I would appreciate some explanation of what it's all about.

UPDATE

Found on GitHub a thread where it was confirmed that it's a known error and that's the right solution to solve it. So the question is solved!
 
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