description "fail2ban - ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors"

start on filesystem and started networking
stop on deconfiguring-networking

expect daemon
respawn

pre-start script
    [ -d /var/run/fail2ban ] || mkdir -p /var/run/fail2ban
end script

exec /usr/bin/fail2ban-client -x start

post-stop exec /usr/bin/fail2ban-client stop