From 3b7f952cd27417e44c4beda758bd6f474f16f51c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cyril Jaquier Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 22:17:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - Update installation + configuration instructions git-svn-id: https://fail2ban.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/fail2ban/trunk@35 a942ae1a-1317-0410-a47c-b1dcaea8d605 --- README | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 317b34e7..4967b25b 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ also support others firewalls than iptables. Installation: ------------- -Require: python-2.2 (http://www.python.org) +Require: python-2.3 (http://www.python.org) log4py-1.1 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/log4py) To install, just do: @@ -62,19 +62,24 @@ Fail2Ban should now be correctly installed. Just type: > fail2ban.py -h -to see if everything is alright. +to see if everything is alright. You can configure fail2ban +with a config file. Copy config/fail2ban.conf.default to +/etc/fail2ban.conf. Configuration: -------------- -For the time, there is no configuration file. You must use -commande line options instead. Here are the options: +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: -b start fail2ban in background -d start fail2ban in debug mode -f read password failure from FILE -h display this help message + -i IP(s) to ignore -l log message in FILE -r allow a max of VALUE password failure -t