ENH: Default maxlines value in jail.conf, and verify value is int >0

bin/fail2ban-regex

@@ -136,13 +136,7 @@ class Fail2banRegex:
 			elif opt[0] in ["-v", "--verbose"]:
 				self.__verbose = True
 			elif opt[0] in ["-l", "--maxlines"]:
-				try:
+				self.__filter.setMaxLines(opt[1])
-					self.__filter.setMaxLines(int(opt[1]))
-				except ValueError:
-					print "Invlaid value for maxlines: %s" % (
-                        opt[1])
-					fail2banRegex.dispUsage()
-					sys.exit(-1)
 
 	#@staticmethod
 	def logIsFile(value):

config/jail.conf

@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ findtime  = 600
 # "maxretry" is the number of failures before a host get banned.
 maxretry = 3
 
+# "maxlines" is number of log lines to buffer for multi-line regex searches
+maxlines = 1
+
 # "backend" specifies the backend used to get files modification.
 # Available options are "pyinotify", "gamin", "polling" and "auto".
 # This option can be overridden in each jail as well.

fail2ban/server/filter.py

@@ -218,8 +218,10 @@ class Filter(JailThread):
 	# @param value the line buffer size
 
 	def setMaxLines(self, value):
-		self.__lineBufferSize = max(1, value)
+		if int(value) <= 0:
-		logSys.info("Set maxLines = %i" % self.__lineBufferSize)
+			raise ValueError("maxlines must be integer greater than zero")
+		self.__lineBufferSize = int(value)
+		logSys.info("Set maxlines = %i" % self.__lineBufferSize)
 
 	##
 	# Get the maximum line buffer size.