Possibly related to bug 601422 ? https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601422 Fail2ban fails to start due to non-existent directory systemctl start fail2ban results in entry in systemd journal Dec 02 00:57:14 tony-gentoo fail2ban-client[12659]: ERROR There is no directory /run/fail2ban to contain the socket file /run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock. Creating directory /run/fail2ban solves issue, and fail2ban starts
duplicate of bug 579168
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 579168 ***