Man page - fail2ban-server(1)

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Package: fail2ban
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fail2ban-server - start the server

fail2ban-server [ OPTIONS ]

Fail2Ban v1.1.0 reads log file that contains password failure report and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules.

-c , --conf <DIR>

configuration directory

-s , --socket <FILE>

socket path

-p , --pidfile <FILE>

pidfile path

--pname <NAME>

name of the process (main thread) to identify instance (default fail2ban-server)

--loglevel <LEVEL>

logging level

--logtarget <TARGET>

logging target, use file-name or stdout, stderr, syslog or sysout.

	--syslogsocket auto\|<FILE>
	-d

dump configuration. For debugging

--dp , --dump-pretty

dump the configuration using more human readable representation

-t , --test

test configuration (can be also specified with start parameters)

	-i		interactive mode
	-v		increase verbosity
	-q		decrease verbosity
	-x		force execution of the server (remove socket file)
	-b		start server in background (default)
	-f		start server in foreground

--async

start server in async mode (for internal usage only, don’t read configuration)

--timeout

timeout to wait for the server (for internal usage only, don’t read configuration)

--str2sec <STRING>

convert time abbreviation format to seconds

-h , --help

display this help message

-V , --version

print the version ( -V returns machine-readable short format)

Report bugs via Debian bug tracking system http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ .