Urgent: Plugin doesn't writes to syslog

  • jaschaio

    (@jaschaio)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    I have the plugin installed and fail2ban configured as described in the Installation Tab.

    But it appears that the plugin is not writing to the auth.log file.

    Maybe my nginx is configured differently, but I only get ssh logs into the auth.log file.

    How can I check where the syslog() function is actually writing to? Is there anything I have to edit in my nginx config?

    I am getting hundreds of requests to my xmlrpc.php file and would really love to block these IP automatically by fail2ban. Hope someone can help.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fail2ban/

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  • Plugin Author invisnet

    (@invisnet)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    Unfortunately you’ve not given me much to work with….

    Which OS? What other plugins have you got installed? Does your OS use LOG_AUTHPRIV? My guess is that it does if you’re not seeing anything – see if putting this in wp-config.php helps:

    define(‘WP_FAIL2BAN_AUTH_LOG’,LOG_AUTHPRIV);

    Thread Starter jaschaio

    (@jaschaio)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    OS is Ubuntu 14.04

    How can I find out if it uses LOG_AUTHPRIV?

    I will put that into my wp-config anyway and see if it helps.

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