# I broke Fail2Ban and now there's issues on yunohost, please help
**URL:** https://forum.yunohost.org/t/i-broke-fail2ban-and-now-theres-issues-on-yunohost-please-help/24600
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** fail2ban, yunohost, english
**Created:** [May 2, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/i-broke-fail2ban-and-now-theres-issues-on-yunohost-please-help/24600 "2023-05-02T12:49:00Z")
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### Author:  [@andy-rynue](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/andy-rynue)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2023, 12:49pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/i-broke-fail2ban-and-now-theres-issues-on-yunohost-please-help/24600/1 "2023-05-02T12:49:01Z")
HI ALL!
- I HOPE I DIDN’T BREAK EVERY APP/ETC IN YUNOHOST AND THIS IS REPAIRABLE
PREFACE: I’M SO/SO AND WOULD SAY A LITTLE TECHY BUT AM NO DEV
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I have been trying to figure out a wordpress issue (any tips? trying to setup a theme, it says WP uploads directory needs to be writable.. I thought it was, I made it and still an error, anyway not for this post) and in doing so I think I deleted something I shouldn’t.
Now when I reboot or try to start fail2ban I get the error
“-- Journal begins at Mon 2023-05-01 09:25:50 ADT, ends at Tue 2023-05-02 09:38:20 ADT. –
May 02 09:17:49 systemd[1]: Stopping Fail2Ban Service…
May 02 09:17:49 fail2ban-client[381307]: Shutdown successful
May 02 09:17:49 systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Succeeded.
May 02 09:17:49 systemd[1]: Stopped Fail2Ban Service.
May 02 09:17:49 systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Consumed 7min 19.579s CPU time.
May 02 09:17:49 systemd[1]: Starting Fail2Ban Service…
May 02 09:17:50 systemd[1]: Started Fail2Ban Service.
May 02 09:17:50 fail2ban-server[381311]: 2023-05-02 09:17:50,596 fail2ban [381311]: ERROR Failed during configuration: Have not found any log file for sshd jail
May 02 09:17:50 fail2ban-server[381311]: 2023-05-02 09:17:50,601 fail2ban [381311]: ERROR Async configuration of server failed
May 02 09:17:50 systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION
May 02 09:17:50 systemd[1]: fail2ban.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
May 02 09:18:05 systemd[1]: Starting Fail2Ban Service…
May 02 09:18:05 systemd[1]: Started Fail2Ban Service.”
Now I guess I understand what this says. There’s 2 problems. I have no idea how to fix either of them and ensure it still works with my stuff. I cannot get emails or anything right now, please help I have spent two days trying to troubleshoot this but believe I am indeed too stupid. Thank you in advance.
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### My YunoHost server
**Hardware:** Old computer at home - AMD 5700G
**YunoHost version:** 11.1.18
**I have access to my server :** Through SSH | direct access via keyboard / screen
**Are you in a special context or did you perform some particular tweaking on your YunoHost instance ?** : yes - I think I 100% deleted something when trying to undo something else that didn’t work to fix a wordpress issue which are likely the two things causing the fail.
> **[hastebin](https://paste.yunohost.org/ofipehafig)**
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### Author:  [@andy-rynue](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/andy-rynue)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/i-broke-fail2ban-and-now-theres-issues-on-yunohost-please-help/24600/2 "2023-05-02T14:44:38Z")
y’all!
I did this:
specify the backend in `/etc/fail2ban/jail.conf` to use `systemd` by editing the following line:
````auto
backend = auto
```TO
backend = systemd
Then restart fail2ban by running (or use yunohost admin panel):
systemctl restart fail2ban
I THIIIIINK it's working
````
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2023, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/i-broke-fail2ban-and-now-theres-issues-on-yunohost-please-help/24600/3 "2023-06-01T14:44:53Z")
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