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* commit '0_8_4': - Release 0.8.4. - Oups... Forgot the ChangeLog... - Check the inode number for rotation in addition to checking the first line of the file. Thanks to Jonathan Kamens. - Fixed typo. Thanks to Dudi Goldenberg. added traceback to asyncserver.py's import. Added item about logging subsystem shutdown being moved, to Changelog. moved logging shutdown out of quit(), into end of start() in server.py Disabled jail lighttpd-fastcgi by default. - Added entry for "Ban IP" command. added "Ban IP" command to fail2ban branch 0.8 - Added two new filters: lighttpd-fastcgi and php-url-fopen. - Moved last entries in the config/ part. added two new filter files (PHP url_fopen, lighttpd fastcgi alerts), updated MANIFEST and jail.conf accordingly - Added svn:keywords property. - Added helper module in common. added 'unexpected communication error' fix to ChangeLog. Added formatExceptionInfo to server/asyncserver.py added missing import sys to asyncserver.py more readable code for python version comparison added python version detection to asyncore.loop(use_poll=True|False) Fix for python 2.6 / 3.0 incompatibility |
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README
__ _ _ ___ _ / _|__ _(_) |_ ) |__ __ _ _ _ | _/ _` | | |/ /| '_ \/ _` | ' \ |_| \__,_|_|_/___|_.__/\__,_|_||_| ================================================================================ Fail2Ban (version 0.8.4) 2009/09/07 ================================================================================ 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-0.8.4.tar.bz2 > cd fail2ban-0.8.4 > 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: ------- 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, Russell Odom, Christos Psonis, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman and many others. License: -------- 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