From 136b32c2e165d9c88b5ec1a86d79d92e98535f5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cyril Jaquier Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:36:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - Updated git-svn-id: https://fail2ban.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fail2ban/trunk@474 a942ae1a-1317-0410-a47c-b1dcaea8d605 --- CHANGELOG | 5 +++++ README | 47 +++++++++---------------------------------- man/fail2ban-server.1 | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG index 6db6427e..e0bbf79e 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG +++ b/CHANGELOG @@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ ver. 0.7.5 (2006/??/??) - ??? - Improved documentation - Moved version.py and protocol.py to common/ - Merged "maxtime" option with "findtime" +- Added "" tag support in failregex which matches + default IP address/hostname. "(?P\S)" is still valid + and supported +- Fixed exception when calling fail2ban-server with unknown + option ver. 0.7.4 (2006/11/01) - beta ---------- diff --git a/README b/README index 61797f72..4b5cd6de 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ rules to reject the IP address. These rules can be defined by the user. Fail2Ban can read multiple log files such as sshd or Apache web server ones. -Documentation, FAQ, HOWTOs are available on the project +This README is a quick introduction to Fail2ban. More +documentation, FAQ, HOWTOs are available on the project website: http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net Installation: @@ -38,54 +39,26 @@ Gentoo: ebuilds are available on the website. Debian: Fail2Ban is in Debian unstable. RedHat: packages are available on the website. -Fail2Ban should now be correctly installed. Just type: +Fail2Ban should be correctly installed now. Just type: > fail2ban-client -h -to see if everything is alright. +to see if everything is alright. You should always use +fail2ban-client and never call fail2ban-server directly. Configuration: -------------- -You can configure fail2ban using the files in /etc/fail2ban -or using command line. Here are the available command line -options (not complete yet): - -Options: - -c configuration directory - -s socket path - -d dump configuration. For debugging - -i interactive mode - -v increase verbosity - -q decrease verbosity - -x force execution of the server - -h, --help display this help message - -V, --version print the version - -Command: - start start the server and the jails - reload reload the configuration - stop stop all jails and terminate the - server - status get the current status - - set loglevel set loglevel to - get loglevel get loglevel - set logtarget set log target to - get logtarget get log target - - add [BACKEND] create using [BACKEND] - set set the value for - get get the value for - start start - stop stop . The jail is removed - status get the current status of +You can configure Fail2ban using the files in /etc/fail2ban. +It is possible to configure the server using commands sent to +it by fail2ban-client. The available commands are described +in the man page of fail2ban-client. Please refer to it. Contact: -------- You need some new features, you found bugs or you just -appreciate this program, you can contact me at : +appreciate this program, you can contact me at: Website: http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net diff --git a/man/fail2ban-server.1 b/man/fail2ban-server.1 index e93c3966..daee00cf 100644 --- a/man/fail2ban-server.1 +++ b/man/fail2ban-server.1 @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ Fail2Ban v0.7.4\-SVN reads log file that contains password failure report and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules. .PP Only use this command for debugging purpose. Start the server with -fail2ban\-client instead. +fail2ban\-client instead. The default behaviour is to start the server +in background. .SH OPTIONS .TP \fB\-b\fR