From dean@arctic.org Tue Aug 16 23:03:30 2005
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:03:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: use /dev/log for syslog logging

Package: fail2ban
Version: 0.5.2-1

if you ask fail2ban to use SYSLOG for logging it'll try to log to 
localhost:514 ... which isn't typically enabled on a debian system.

the below patch fixes this to use /dev/log, and allows the user to 
optionally change the syslog-facility in the config file (i prefer to see 
the log messages in facility 4 alongside my ssh messages).

-dean

--- fail2ban.py.orig	2005-08-16 22:43:53.000000000 -0700
+++ fail2ban.py	2005-08-16 22:58:50.000000000 -0700
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@
 	# Options
 	optionValues = (["bool", "background", False],
 					["str", "logtargets", "/var/log/fail2ban.log"],
+					["int", "syslog-facility", 1],
 					["bool", "debug", False],
 					["str", "pidlock", "/var/run/fail2ban.pid"],
 					["int", "maxretry", 3],
@@ -241,7 +242,7 @@
 		if target == "STDERR":
 			hdlr = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stderr)
 		elif target == "SYSLOG":
-			hdlr = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler()
+			hdlr = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler("/dev/log", conf["syslog-facility"])
 		else:
 			# Target should be a file
 			try: