After updating your configuration files, copying configuration files from this repo, and/or using the Convenience Script, you must restart Fail2Ban to activate changes. This is a simple 3 step process.
Restart F2B service
Check status of F2B
Confirm via F2B-client
systemctl restart fail2ban.service
systemctl --full --no-pager status fail2ban.service
fail2ban-client status
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