I realized that fail2ban wasn’t banning SSH fail login attempts…

My server’s time is different from the one being logged by rsyslog ’cause I had to change my timezones once…….. 🙂
Lets restart rsyslog.

sudo service rsyslog restart

Hooray!

References

•  http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ_english#Fail2ban_is_running_but_not_banning_SSH_bruteforce