newbie: fail2ban startup problem

tonj · 04-22-2012, 12:08 PM

centos 6.2 server with fail2ban-0.8.2-3.el6.rf.noarch

I followed the instructions here:
http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Sendmail
to get fail2ban working with sendmail, but when I restarted fail2ban I get:
Starting fail2ban: /usr/share/fail2ban/server/filter.py:430: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
import md5

google doesn't have much info on this. What does it mean and how do I solve it?
ps: I registered with the community portal at fail2ban,org but couldn't see any way to post a query.

acid_kewpie · 04-22-2012, 12:10 PM

well it says "warning" so it shouldn't matter, that wouldn't stop fail2ban running.

repo · 04-22-2012, 12:13 PM

Upgrade to the latest version 0.8.6

Kind regards

tonj · 04-22-2012, 01:01 PM

yum install gave me this version, and does not offer an upgrade.

repo · 04-22-2012, 01:03 PM

http://pkgs.repoforge.org/fail2ban/

Kind regards

tonj · 04-22-2012, 01:06 PM

thanks for the link but there's no 0.8.6 I can see there.
The latest I see is fail2ban-0.8.2-3.rf.src.rpm, which is the same version that yum gave me

edit: it's ok, I got it from:
https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/downloads

repo · 04-22-2012, 01:10 PM

My bad.
Can't you install from source?

Kind regards

tonj · 04-22-2012, 01:18 PM

yay!
see my edit above, I installed 0.8.6 and the error has now disappeared. Thanks for your help repo.