adjusted for proper help2man functioning. still help2man freeks out a bit and duplicates help output -- that is for later to fix

Makefile

@@ -2,9 +2,15 @@
 # install target involved only if using autotools
 DESTDIR=debian/fail2ban
 
-all:: 
+all::  fail2ban fail2ban.1x
+
+
+fail2ban.1x: fail2ban fail2ban.h2m
+	help2man --include fail2ban.h2m --section=1x --no-info --output $@ ./fail2ban
+	
+fail2ban: fail2ban.py
 	cp fail2ban.py fail2ban
-	help2man -N -s 1 ./fail2ban >| fail2ban.1
+
 
 install:: all
 	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/etc/default
@@ -15,4 +21,4 @@ install:: all
 	cp log4py.py $(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/fail2ban/
 
 clean::
-	rm -rf changelog.gz fail2ban{,.1} build* `find -iname '*.pyc' `
+	rm -rf changelog.gz fail2ban{,.1x} build* `find -iname '*.pyc' `

config/fail2ban.conf.default

@@ -85,9 +85,9 @@ enabled = false
 
 # Option:  logfile
 # Notes.:  logfile to monitor.
-# Values:  FILE  Default:  /var/log/apache/access_log
+# Values:  FILE  Default:  /var/log/apache/access.log
 #
-logfile = /var/log/apache/access_log
+logfile = /var/log/apache/access.log
 
 # Option:  timeregex
 # Notes.:  regex to match timestamp in Apache logfile.

debian/control

@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ Package: fail2ban
 Architecture: all
 Depends: python, iptables
 Description: Ban IPs that make too many password failure
- Fail2Ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or
- /var/log/apache/error_log and bans IP that makes too many password
+ The Fail2Ban scans log files like /var/log/auth.log or
+ /var/log/apache/access.log and bans IP that makes too many password
  failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP
  address. Currently, iptables, ipfwadm and ipfw are supported.
  .

fail2ban.h2m

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+Include file for help2man man page
+$Id:  $
+
+[name]
+fail2ban \- Ban IPs that make too many password failure
+
+
+[files]
+\fI/etc/fail2ban.conf\fR, \fI/etc/default/fail2ban\fR
+
+[copyright]
+Copyright (c) 2004 Cyril Jaquier
+.br
+Copyright of modifications held by their respective authors.
+.PP
+Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL).
+
+
+[author]
+Original fail2ban by Cyril Jaquier <lostcontrol@users.sourceforge.net>.
+.br
+Modified by
+.br
+ - Yaroslav O. Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>.
+.br
+Sponsored for Debian by
+.br
+ - Barak A. Pearlmutter <barak@cs.may.ie>.

fail2ban.py

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ from confreader.configreader import ConfigReader
 from version import version
 
 def usage():
-	print "Usage: fail2ban.py [OPTIONS]"
+	print "Usage: "+sys.argv[0]+" [OPTIONS]"
 	print
 	print "Fail2Ban v"+version+" reads log file that contains password failure report"
 	print "and bans the corresponding IP address using iptables."