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.TH "FAIL2BAN" "8" "July 2005" "Cyril Jaquier" "System administration tools"
.SH "NAME"
fail2ban \- bans IP that makes too many password failures
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.B fail2ban
[\fIOPTIONS\fR]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
\fBFail2Ban\fR reads log file that contains password failure report
and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules. It updates
firewall rules to reject the IP address.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.TP 
\fB\-b\fR
start in background
.TP 
\fB\-d\fR
start in debug mode. Commands are NOT executed but only displayed
.TP 
\fB\-c\fR \fIFILE\fR
read configuration file \fIFILE\fR
.TP 
\fB\-p\fR \fIFILE\fR
create PID lock in \fIFILE\fR
.TP 
\fB\-h, \-\-help\fR
display this help message
.TP 
\fB\-i\fR \fIIP\fR
\fIIP\fR(s) to ignore
.TP 
\fB\-k\fR
kill a currently running Fail2Ban instance
.TP 
\fB\-r\fR \fIVALUE\fR
allow a max of \fIVALUE\fR password failure
.TP 
\fB\-t\fR \fITIME\fR
ban IP for \fITIME\fR seconds
.TP 
\fB\-v\fR
verbose. Use twice for greater effect
.TP 
\fB\-V, \-\-version\fR
print software version
.SH "FILES"
.I /etc/fail2ban.conf
.RS
The configuration file. See \fBfail2ban.conf\fR(5) for further details.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Please report bugs at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fail2ban/
via bug tracker
.SH "AUTHOR"
Cyril Jaquier <lostcontrol@users.sourceforge.net>
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.TP 
See
.BR "http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net/".