diff --git a/root/sbin/e-smith/smeserver-fail2ban b/root/sbin/e-smith/smeserver-fail2ban
index d1605d4..8dfc156 100644
--- a/root/sbin/e-smith/smeserver-fail2ban
+++ b/root/sbin/e-smith/smeserver-fail2ban
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ sub generate_uniq_id(){
 }
 
 my $f2b = $c->get('fail2ban') ||
-  die "fail2ban service not found in the configuration database\n"
+  die "fail2ban service not found in the configuration database\n";
 
 # default is to ban a host
 $opts{unban} = '0';