fail2ban-server - Man Page
start the server
Synopsis
fail2ban-server [Options]
Description
Fail2Ban v1.0.2 reads log file that contains password failure report and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules.
Options
- -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)
Reporting Bugs
Report bugs to https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues
See Also
Referenced By
fail2ban(1), fail2ban-client(1), fail2ban-regex(1), fail2ban-testcases(1), jail.conf(5).