File csf.deny is Non-ISO extended-ASCII text

paszczak000 · Post by **paszczak000** » 30 Dec 2021, 07:22

I have problem with coding in file /etc/csf/csf.deny.

When I'm editing this file in Python I'm getting error: UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xce in position 2882: invalid continuation byte.

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# file -i /etc/csf/csf.deny 
/etc/csf/csf.deny: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit

# find .  -type f -print | xargs file | grep deny
./csf.deny:                                                     Non-ISO extended-ASCII text

So my questions:

Can CSF encode file in some standard UTF-8?
It is possible to disable logging country into csf.deny file. Because this could be a problem with encoding ex: # lfd: (imapd) Failed IMAP login from xx.xx.xx.xx (PL/Poland/West Pomerania/SÅ<82>awno/-): 20 in the last 300 secs - Tue Dec 28 12:04:13 2021
Any other solutions to fix problem with charset encoding?