From 54f4a7d2409dde5054ce692300022569db817ccf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cyril Jaquier <cyril.jaquier@fail2ban.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 21:06:15 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] - Hopefully fixed bug #1256075

git-svn-id: https://fail2ban.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fail2ban/branches/FAIL2BAN-0_5@187 a942ae1a-1317-0410-a47c-b1dcaea8d605
---
 logreader/logreader.py | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/logreader/logreader.py b/logreader/logreader.py
index b1acf74a..37fe23a9 100644
--- a/logreader/logreader.py
+++ b/logreader/logreader.py
@@ -134,11 +134,13 @@ class LogReader:
 		logSys.debug(self.logPath)
 		logFile = self.openLogFile()
 		self.setFilePos(logFile)
-		lastLine = ''
+		lastLine = None
 		for line in logFile:
+			if not self.hasTime(line):
+				# There is no valid time in this line
+				continue
 			lastLine = line
-			failList = self.findFailure(line)
-			for element in failList:
+			for element in self.findFailure(line):
 				ip = element[0]
 				unixTime = element[1]
 				if unixTime < time.time()-self.findTime:
@@ -152,7 +154,8 @@ class LogReader:
 				else:
 					ipList[ip] = (1, unixTime)
 		self.lastPos = logFile.tell()
-		self.lastDate = self.getTime(lastLine)
+		if lastLine:
+			self.lastDate = self.getTime(lastLine)
 		logFile.close()
 		return ipList
 
@@ -175,6 +178,15 @@ class LogReader:
 						failList.append([ip, date])
 		return failList
 	
+	def hasTime(self, line):
+		""" Return true if the line contains a date
+		"""
+		timeMatch = re.search(self.timeregex, line)
+		if timeMatch:
+			return True
+		else:
+			return False
+	
 	def getTime(self, line):
 		""" Gets the time of a log message.
 		"""