FAIL2BAN(1)		    General Commands Manual		   FAIL2BAN(1)



NAME
       fail2ban	 -  a  set  of server and client programs to limit brute force
       authentication attempts.

DESCRIPTION
       Fail2Ban consists of a client, server and configuration files to	 limit
       brute force authentication attempts.

       The  server  program  fail2ban-server is responsible for monitoring log
       files and issuing ban/unban commands.  It  gets	configured  through  a
       simple  protocol	 by fail2ban-client, which can also read configuration
       files and issue corresponding configuration commands to the server.

       For details on the configuration of fail2ban see the jail.conf(5)  man-
       ual  page.   A  jail  (as  specified  in jail.conf) couples filters and
       actions definitions for any given list of files to get monitored.

       For details on the command-line	options	 of  fail2ban-server  see  the
       fail2ban-server(1) manual page.

       For  details  on	 the command-line options and commands for configuring
       the server via fail2ban-client see the fail2ban-client(1) manual page.

       For testing  regular  expressions  specified  in	 a  filter  using  the
       fail2ban-regex  program	may be of use and its manual page is fail2ban-
       regex(1).


FILES
       /etc/fail2ban/*

AUTHOR
       Manual page written by Daniel Black and Yaroslav Halchenko

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2013
       Copyright of modifications held by their respective authors.   Licensed
       under the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL).

SEE ALSO
       fail2ban-server(1) fail2ban-client(1) fail2ban-regex(1) jail.conf(5)



Fail2Ban			  March 2013			   FAIL2BAN(1)