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fail2ban-regex - Man Page

test Fail2ban "failregex" option

Synopsis

fail2ban-regex [Options] <Log> <Regex> [Ignoreregex]

Description

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

This tools can test regular expressions for "fail2ban".

Log

string: a string representing a log line
filename: path to a log file (/var/log/auth.log)
systemd-journal: search systemd journal (systemd-python required), optionally with backend parameters, see `man jail.conf` for usage and examples (systemd-journal[journalflags=1]).

Regex

string: a string representing a 'failregex'
filter: name of filter, optionally with options (sshd[mode=aggressive])
filename: path to a filter file (filter.d/sshd.conf)

Ignoreregex

string: a string representing an 'ignoreregex'
filename: path to a filter file (filter.d/sshd.conf)

Options

--version: show program's version number and exit
-h, --help: show this help message and exit
-c CONFIG, --config=CONFIG: set alternate config directory
-d DATEPATTERN, --datepattern=DATEPATTERN: set custom pattern used to match date/times
--timezone=TIMEZONE, --TZ=TIMEZONE: set time-zone used by convert time format
-e ENCODING, --encoding=ENCODING: File encoding. Default: system locale
-r, --raw: Raw hosts, don't resolve dns
--usedns=USEDNS: DNS specified replacement of tags <HOST> in regexp ('yes' - matches all form of hosts, 'no' - IP addresses only)
-L MAXLINES, --maxlines=MAXLINES: maxlines for multi-line regex.
-m JOURNALMATCH, --journalmatch=JOURNALMATCH: journalctl style matches overriding filter file. "systemd-journal" only
-l LOG_LEVEL, --log-level=LOG_LEVEL: Log level for the Fail2Ban logger to use
-V: get version in machine-readable short format
-v, --verbose: Increase verbosity
--verbosity=VERBOSE: Set numerical level of verbosity (0..4)
--verbose-date, --VD: Verbose date patterns/regex in output
-D, --debuggex: Produce debuggex.com urls for debugging there
--no-check-all: Disable check for all regex's
-o OUT, --out=OUT: Set token to print failure information only (row, id, ip, msg, host, ip4, ip6, dns, matches, ...)
--print-no-missed: Do not print any missed lines
--print-no-ignored: Do not print any ignored lines
--print-all-matched: Print all matched lines
--print-all-missed: Print all missed lines, no matter how many
--print-all-ignored: Print all ignored lines, no matter how many
-t, --log-traceback: Enrich log-messages with compressed tracebacks
--full-traceback: Either to make the tracebacks full, not compressed (as by default)