When Kamailio message parser produces this kind of syslog message: 024-11-11T21:16:40.757364+02:00 box /usr/bin/sip-proxy[181398]: ERROR: <core> [core/parser/msg_parser.c:791]: parse_msg(): ERROR: parse_msg: message=<#026#003#001#006\340#001> fail2ban complains: Consider setting logencoding to appropriate encoding for this jail. Continuing to process line ignoring invalid characters: b'2024-11-11T21:06:15.347318+02:00 box /usr/bin/sip-proxy[181398]: ERROR: <core> [core/parser/msg_parser.c:791]: parse_msg(): ERROR: parse_msg: message=<#026#003#001#006\xc0#001>\n': 1 Time(s) Error decoding line from '/var/log/syslog' with 'UTF-8'.: 1 Time(s) Unable to retrieve Watch object associated to <_RawEvent cookie=0 mask=0x2 name='' wd=13 >: 3 Time(s) Would it be possible to somehow ensure that Kamailio syslog messages only contain valid UTF-8 characters? -- Juha