From 0f6829bd648935ceb4ae89468b229ddf00d1ec63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cyril Jaquier Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:20:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - Updated for 0.7.0 git-svn-id: https://fail2ban.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fail2ban/trunk@293 a942ae1a-1317-0410-a47c-b1dcaea8d605 --- CHANGELOG | 5 ++-- README | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------- 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG index 250ebf52..972fd7ad 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG +++ b/CHANGELOG @@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ |_| \__,_|_|_/___|_.__/\__,_|_||_| ============================================================= -Fail2Ban (version 0.7.0) 2006/07/?? +Fail2Ban (version 0.7.0) 2006/08/23 ============================================================= -ver. 0.7.0 (2006/07/??) - alpha +ver. 0.7.0 (2006/08/23) - alpha ---------- - Almost a complete rewrite :) Fail2ban design is really better (IMHO). There is a lot of new features @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ ver. 0.7.0 (2006/07/??) - alpha to use - failregex uses group () now. This feature was already present in the Debian package +- lots of things... ver. 0.6.1 (2006/03/16) - stable ---------- diff --git a/README b/README index c7878a59..bfa7dde3 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ |_| \__,_|_|_/___|_.__/\__,_|_||_| ============================================================= -Fail2Ban (version 0.6.1) 2006/03/16 +Fail2Ban (version 0.7.0) 2006/08/23 ============================================================= Fail2Ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail and bans IP @@ -58,12 +58,12 @@ Require: python-2.4 (http://www.python.org) To install, just do: -> tar xvfj fail2ban-0.6.1.tar.bz2 -> cd fail2ban-0.6.1 +> tar xvfj fail2ban-0.7.0.tar.bz2 +> cd fail2ban-0.7.0 > python setup.py install This will install Fail2Ban into /usr/lib/fail2ban. The -fail2ban executable is placed into /usr/bin. +executable scripts are placed into /usr/bin. Gentoo: ebuilds are available on the website. Debian: Fail2Ban is in Debian unstable. @@ -71,50 +71,45 @@ RedHat: packages are available on the website. Fail2Ban should now be correctly installed. Just type: -> fail2ban -h +> fail2ban-client -h -to see if everything is alright. You can configure fail2ban -with a config file. Different kind of configuration files are -available: - -iptables: copy config/fail2ban.conf.iptables to - /etc/fail2ban.conf -hosts.deny: copy config/fail2ban.conf.hostsdeny to - /etc/fail2ban.conf -shorewall: copy config/fail2ban.conf.shorewall to - /etc/fail2ban.conf - -Do not forget to edit fail2ban.conf to meet your needs. - -You can use the initd script available in config/. Copy --initd to /etc/init.d/fail2ban. Gentoo users must copy -gentoo-confd to /etc/conf.d/fail2ban. You can start fail2ban: - -> /etc/init.d/fail2ban start - -Gentoo users can add it to the default runlevel: - -> rc-update add fail2ban default +to see if everything is alright. Configuration: -------------- -You can configure fail2ban using the file /etc/fail2ban.conf -or using command line options. Command line options override -the value stored in fail2ban.conf. Here are the command line -options: +You can configure fail2ban using the files in /etc/fail2ban +or using command line. Here are the available command line +options (not complete yet): - -b start in background - -c read configuration file FILE - -p create PID lock in FILE - -h display this help message - -i IP(s) to ignore - -k kill a currently running instance - -r allow a max of VALUE password failure [maxfailures] - -t