.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.40.12. .TH FAIL2BAN-SERVER "1" "October 2013" "fail2ban-server v0.8.11.pre1" "User Commands" .SH NAME fail2ban-server \- start the server .SH SYNOPSIS .B fail2ban-server [\fIOPTIONS\fR] .SH DESCRIPTION Fail2Ban v0.8.11.pre1 reads log file that contains password failure report and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules. .PP Only use this command for debugging purpose. Start the server with fail2ban\-client instead. The default behaviour is to start the server in background. .SH OPTIONS .TP \fB\-b\fR start in background .TP \fB\-f\fR start in foreground .TP \fB\-s\fR socket path .TP \fB\-p\fR pidfile path .TP \fB\-x\fR force execution of the server (remove socket file) .TP \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR display this help message .TP \fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR print the version .SH AUTHOR Written by Cyril Jaquier . Many contributions by Yaroslav O. Halchenko . .SH "REPORTING BUGS" Report bugs to https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright \(co 2004\-2008 Cyril Jaquier, 2008\- Fail2Ban Contributors .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)