Fail2Ban doesn't pull in IPTables as a dependecy when emerged. Fail2Ban normally bans unwanted login attemps via IPTables (may also be implemented by using tcp-wappers but this is optional). Expected behaviour : Fail2Ban pulls IPTables package as dep. Actual behaviour: Fail2Ban emerges successfully without IPTables; but fails to set rules when running Fix: Set IPTables as dep of Fail2Ban Emerge info: Musha tim # emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.31-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r10-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_XP_2500+-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages news nodoc noinfo parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS=" en_GB en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acc acl acpi alsa apache2 asf avi berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus divx divx4linux docs dri dts dvd dvdr embedded emboss encode exif fam fbcondecor ffmpeg firefox flac gd gif glibc-omitfp gphoto2 gtk gtk2 iconv java jpeg lastfm lcms ldap live mad mmx mng modules mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer msn mtp mudflap mysql mysqli ncurses njb nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp oscar oss pam pango pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection samba sasl sdl semantic-destop server session spell spl sse ssl startup-notification svg swat sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vdpau vorbis win32codecs wmp workbench x264 x86 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS=" en_GB en" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 125883 ***
