root@server:/home/admin/fail2ban-ban-time-incr# fail2ban-client stop
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/fail2ban-client", line 435, in <module>
    if client.start(sys.argv):
  File "/usr/local/bin/fail2ban-client", line 358, in start
    self.__configurator.readEarly()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fail2ban/client/configurator.py", line 57, in readEarly
    self.__fail2ban.read()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fail2ban/client/fail2banreader.py", line 39, in read
    ConfigReader.read(self, "fail2ban")
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fail2ban/client/configreader.py", line 76, in read
    log_info=("Cache configs for %s under %s " , filename, self._basedir))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fail2ban/client/configparserinc.py", line 123, in read
    fileNamesFull += SCPWI.getIncludes(filename)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fail2ban/client/configparserinc.py", line 170, in getIncludes
    parser.read(resource, get_includes = False)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fail2ban/client/configparserinc.py", line 139, in read
    ret = cr.read(fileNamesFull)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/fail2ban/client/configparserinc.py", line 243, in read
    return SafeConfigParser.read(self, filenames)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 297, in read
    self._read(fp, filename)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/ConfigParser.py", line 504, in _read
    raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf, line: 9
'loglevel = DEBUG\n'