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Installation: Installation:
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Fail2Ban is likely already packaged for your Linux distribution: Fail2Ban is likely already packaged for your Linux distribution and [can installed with a simple command](https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/wiki/How-to-install-fail2ban-packages).
*CentOS/CentOS Stream/RHEL Based Operating Systems* If your distribution is not listed, you can install from GitHub:
Ensure your system is up to date and install the EPEL repository:
yum update -y && yum install epel-release -y
Install Fail2Ban:
yum install fail2ban
For email support, install Sendmail:
yum install sendmail
Start and enable Fail2ban and, if needed, Sendmail:
systemctl start fail2ban
systemctl enable fail2ban
systemctl start sendmail
systemctl enable sendmail
If you encounter the error that there is `no directory /var/run/fail2ban to contain the socket file /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock`, create the directory manually:
mkdir /var/run/fail2ban
*Debian*
Ensure your system is up to date:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y
Install Fail2ban:
apt-get install fail2ban
The service automatically starts.
For email support, install Sendmail:
apt-get install sendmail-bin sendmail
The current version of Sendmail in Debian Jessie has an upstream bug which causes the following errors when installing sendmail-bin. The installation hangs for a minute, but then complete.
Creating /etc/mail/sendmail.cf...
ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER() MAILER('local') must appear after FEATURE('always_add_domain')
ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER() MAILER('local') must appear after FEATURE('allmasquerade')
*Fedora*
Update your system:
dnf update
Install Fail2ban:
dnf install fail2ban
For email support, install Sendmail:
dnf install sendmail
Start and enable Fail2ban and, if needed, Sendmail:
systemctl start fail2ban
systemctl enable fail2ban
systemctl start sendmail
systemctl enable sendmail
*Ubuntu*
Ensure your system is up to date:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y
Install Fail2ban:
apt-get install fail2ban
The service automatically starts.
For email support, install Sendmail:
apt-get install sendmail
Allow SSH access through UFW and then enable the firewall:
ufw allow ssh
ufw enable
*If your distribution is not listed, you can install from GitHub:*
Required: Required:
- [Python2 >= 2.7 or Python >= 3.2](https://www.python.org) or [PyPy](https://pypy.org) - [Python2 >= 2.7 or Python >= 3.2](https://www.python.org) or [PyPy](https://pypy.org)