Essentials /tempban NOT WORKING!

I need help asap because I have a lot of players on and I need to manage some griefs and other incidents, so please suggest anything. It seems like I've tried everything short of replace essentials which I don't want to go and do it would take forever.
Anyway, so when I use the tempban command on a player, that player becomes permanently banned which obviously shouldn't happen. I have done some test tempbans on people in my teamspeak to see whats happening and they get the message "Banned from server for reason banned by operator." or something very similar to that.
I have tried /tempban, /etempban, all with <username> t:, <username> 5 s, <username> 5 sec, <username> 5 seconds, basically every combination there is... It just doesn't seem to work.
I thought I fixed the problem earlier when I added in the essentials.tempban.offline permission but it still didn't fix anything.
Please help, thanks!

 

You seen to have the syntax wrong. Here's what the documentation says:

/<command> <player name> <time>
<time> Should given in "years(y) months(mo) weeks(w) days(d) hours(h) minutes(m) seconds(s}".
You may omit blank parameters. For example: "2d 5h 30m".

There's no space between the integer and the units for the time.
So your 5 second tempban should be /tempban youvebeenhunted 5s
No space between the 5 and the s.

 

Hello, I am having problems with essentials tempban command. When I ban them for a time like 1minute or every time, they don't get unbanned after that period. Can you please help me? Thanks

 

Seems like you have got sooo much help.