We are running a CentOS 6.8 (Final) VPS Server with Plesk 12.5.30 #48 and have a issue with IP Address Banning.
When it's on the logfile /var/log/fail2ban.log shows:
2016-09-27 18:44:01,060 fail2ban.filter [16304]: WARNING Error decoding line from '/var/log/maillog' with 'UTF-8'. Consider setting logencoding=utf-8 (or another appropriate encoding) for this jail. Continuing to process line ignoring invalid characters: 'Sep 26 06:28:38 xxxxx smtp_auth[6546]: FAILED:...
IP Address Banning fail2ban UTF-8 error
When it's on the logfile /var/log/fail2ban.log shows:
2016-09-27 18:44:01,060 fail2ban.filter [16304]: WARNING Error decoding line from '/var/log/maillog' with 'UTF-8'. Consider setting logencoding=utf-8 (or another appropriate encoding) for this jail. Continuing to process line ignoring invalid characters: 'Sep 26 06:28:38 xxxxx smtp_auth[6546]: FAILED:...
IP Address Banning fail2ban UTF-8 error