Bug : fail2ban status on systemd OSs

[nocternology]

Hi there,

I just tried the dashboard, and i had a strange bug : when launching the webserver and going to localhost:5000, i get a :

UnicodeDecodeError
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)

I tracked down the problem to the variable status before the rendering of the homepage (line 32 of home.py), and i think it comes from the fact that on systemd OSs, the "service" command is translated to "systemctl" command; with systemctl, the output is this :

it has the little green led to indicate that the service is up, and that cannot be parsed by Jinja.

I will try to fix this problem and give a PR to make the fail2ban status checking more universal.

[oussemos]

Hi @nocternology, this tool was developed with Debian Wheezy (based on sysvinit) and wasn't tested with systemd.
Thanks and i'm waiting for your fix 👍 :)

[oussemos]

Good fix @nocternology 👍