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Today I had this problem where Fail2ban was keeping on blacklisting an IP address, even though it was in the ignoreip list in /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf.  After double-checking everything on the server, and googling desperately, I found out that up to version 0.8.2, Fail2ban had a bug which caused only the first IP in the ignoreip list to take effect.  And guess what?  Ubuntu versions before gutsy have older versions of Fail2ban.  After a bit of digging, I found out the patch which had

If you happen to run Ubuntu Server (at least, up to version 7.04) and use the Courier POP3 or IMAP server, and you're watching your log files closely, you've seen error messages such as the below one in /var/log/syslog:

May 21 01:14:10 server4 authdaemond: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_foreground.so: undefined symbol: pam_set_data]