fail2ban

In an attempt to harden the security on my Pi, I have installed fail2ban. The instructions can be found here

Fail2ban allows a remote computer to be blocked from connecting if a threshold of failed login attempts is made.

I am currently investigating why I am getting an error with this

sudo systemctl status fail2ban.service
× fail2ban.service - Fail2Ban Service
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fail2ban.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2024-04-20 19:10:27 BST; 3min 4s ago
   Duration: 696ms
       Docs: man:fail2ban(1)
    Process: 1226 ExecStart=/usr/bin/fail2ban-server -xf start (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)
   Main PID: 1226 (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION)
        CPU: 695ms

Apr 20 19:10:26 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started fail2ban.service - Fail2Ban Service.
Apr 20 19:10:26 raspberrypi fail2ban-server[1226]: 2024-04-20 19:10:26,805 fail2ban.configreader  >
Apr 20 19:10:26 raspberrypi fail2ban-server[1226]: 2024-04-20 19:10:26,877 fail2ban               >
Apr 20 19:10:26 raspberrypi fail2ban-server[1226]: 2024-04-20 19:10:26,879 fail2ban               >
Apr 20 19:10:27 raspberrypi systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status>
Apr 20 19:10:27 raspberrypi systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.


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