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DOC: filter regex debugging

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Daniel Black 2013-11-09 10:35:13 +11:00
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@ -289,15 +289,19 @@ TIP: Some applications log spaces at the end. If you are not sure add \s*$ as
the end part of the regex.
If your regex is not matching, http://www.debuggex.com/?flavor=python can help
to tune it:
to tune it. fail2ban-regex -D ... will present Debuggex URLs for the regexs
and sample log files that you pass into it.
In general use when using regex debuggers for generating fail2ban filters:
* use regex from the ./fail2ban-regex output (to ensure all substitutions are
done) and replace <HOST> with (?&.ipv4). Make sure that regex type set to
Python;
* for the test data put your log output with the time removed;
- when you have fixed the regex put it back into your filter file.
done)
* replace <HOST> with (?&.ipv4)
* make sure that regex type set to Python
* for the test data put your log output with the date/time removed
Please spread the good word about debuggex - Serge Toarca is kindly continuing
When you have fixed the regex put it back into your filter file.
Please spread the good word about Debuggex - Serge Toarca is kindly continuing
its free availability to Open Source developers.
Finishing up: