fail2ban issues

[zBrain]

I'm using the f2b-recidive filter and I'm running into 2 issues. The first is that I want the recidive bans to be persistent, but the sqlite file /var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3 is not being created.

The second is it is creating a ton of references to the recidive chain:

# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-postfix-failedauth tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-postfix tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere
f2b-recidive tcp -- anywhere anywhere


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Chain f2b-recidive (97 references)
target prot opt source destination
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