.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.47.4. .TH FAIL2BAN-SERVER "1" "October 2018" "fail2ban-server v0.11.0.dev3" "User Commands" .SH NAME fail2ban-server \- start the server .SH SYNOPSIS .B fail2ban-server [\fI\,OPTIONS\/\fR] .SH DESCRIPTION Fail2Ban v0.11.0.dev3 reads log file that contains password failure report and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules. .SH OPTIONS .TP \fB\-c\fR configuration directory .TP \fB\-s\fR socket path .TP \fB\-p\fR pidfile path .TP \fB\-\-loglevel\fR logging level .TP \fB\-\-logtarget\fR logging target, use file\-name or stdout, stderr, syslog or sysout. .HP \fB\-\-syslogsocket\fR auto| .TP \fB\-d\fR dump configuration. For debugging .TP \fB\-\-dp\fR, \fB\-\-dump\-pretty\fR dump the configuration using more human readable representation .TP \fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-test\fR test configuration (can be also specified with start parameters) .TP \fB\-i\fR interactive mode .TP \fB\-v\fR increase verbosity .TP \fB\-q\fR decrease verbosity .TP \fB\-x\fR force execution of the server (remove socket file) .TP \fB\-b\fR start server in background (default) .TP \fB\-f\fR start server in foreground .TP \fB\-\-async\fR start server in async mode (for internal usage only, don't read configuration) .TP \fB\-\-timeout\fR timeout to wait for the server (for internal usage only, don't read configuration) .TP \fB\-\-str2sec\fR convert time abbreviation format to seconds .TP \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR display this help message .TP \fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR print the version (\fB\-V\fR returns machine\-readable short format) .SH "REPORTING BUGS" Report bugs to https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues .SH "SEE ALSO" .br fail2ban-client(1)