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.TH FAIL2BAN-REGEX "1" "March 2013" "fail2ban-regex v0.8.8" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
fail2ban-regex \- test Fail2ban "failregex" option
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B fail2ban-regex
[\fIOPTIONS\fR] \fI<LOG> <REGEX> \fR[\fIIGNOREREGEX\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Fail2Ban v0.8.8 reads log file that contains password failure report
and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules.
.PP
This tools can test regular expressions for "fail2ban".
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
display this help message
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
print the version
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
verbose output
.SH LOG
.TP
\fBstring\fR
a string representing a log line
.TP
\fBfilename\fR
path to a log file (/var/log/auth.log)
.SH REGEX
.TP
\fBstring\fR
a string representing a 'failregex'
.TP
\fBfilename\fR
path to a filter file (filter.d/sshd.conf)
.SS "IgnoreRegex:"
.TP
\fBstring\fR
a string representing an 'ignoreregex'
.TP
\fBfilename\fR
path to a filter file (filter.d/sshd.conf)
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Cyril Jaquier <cyril.jaquier@fail2ban.org>.
Many contributions by Yaroslav O. Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2004\-2008 Cyril Jaquier
.br
Copyright of modifications held by their respective authors.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL).
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.br 
fail2ban-client(1)
fail2ban-server(1)