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Fail2Ban (version 0.8.3)                           2008/07/17
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Fail2Ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail and bans IP
that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall
rules to reject the IP address. These rules can be defined by
the user. Fail2Ban can read multiple log files such as sshd
or Apache web server ones.

This README is a quick introduction to Fail2ban. More
documentation, FAQ, HOWTOs are available on the project
website: http://www.fail2ban.org

Installation:
-------------

Required:
   >=python-2.3 (http://www.python.org)

Optional:
   >=gamin-0.0.21 (http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin)

To install, just do:

> tar xvfj fail2ban-0.8.3.tar.bz2
> cd fail2ban-0.8.3
> python setup.py install

This will install Fail2Ban into /usr/share/fail2ban. The
executable scripts are placed into /usr/bin.

It is possible that Fail2ban is already packaged for your
distribution. In this case, you should use it.

Fail2Ban should be correctly installed now. Just type:

> fail2ban-client -h

to see if everything is alright. You should always use
fail2ban-client and never call fail2ban-server directly.

Configuration:
--------------

You can configure Fail2ban using the files in /etc/fail2ban.
It is possible to configure the server using commands sent to
it by fail2ban-client. The available commands are described
in the man page of fail2ban-client. Please refer to it or to
the website: http://www.fail2ban.org

Contact:
--------

You need some new features, you found bugs or you just
appreciate this program, you can contact me at:

Website: http://www.fail2ban.org

Cyril Jaquier: <cyril.jaquier@fail2ban.org>

Thanks:
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Kévin Drapel, Marvin Rouge, Sireyessire, Robert Edeker,
Tom Pike, Iain Lea, Andrey G. Grozin, Yaroslav Halchenko,
Jonathan Kamens, Stephen Gildea, Markus Hoffmann, Mark
Edgington, Patrick Börjesson, kojiro, zugeschmiert, Tyler,
Nick Munger, Christoph Haas, Justin Shore, Joël Bertrand,
René Berber, mEDI, Axel Thimm, Eric Gerbier, Christian Rauch,
Michael C. Haller, Jonathan Underwood, Hanno 'Rince' Wagner,
Daniel B. Cid, David Nutter, Raphaël Marichez, Guillaume
Delvit, Vaclav Misek, Adrien Clerc, Michael Hanselmann,
Vincent Deffontaines, Bill Heaton and many others.

License:
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Fail2Ban is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

Fail2Ban is distributed in the hope that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more
details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with Fail2Ban; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA