.TH FAIL2BAN "1" "March 2013" "Fail2Ban"
.SH NAME
fail2ban \- a set of server and client programs to limit brute force authentication attempts.
.SH DESCRIPTION
Fail2Ban consists of a client, server and configuration files to limit
brute force authentication attempts.

The server program \fBfail2ban-server\fR is responsible for monitoring
log files and issuing ban/unban commands.  It gets configured through
a simple protocol by \fBfail2ban-client\fR, which can also read
configuration files and issue corresponding configuration commands to
the server.

For details on the configuration of fail2ban see the jail.conf(5)
manual page.  A jail (as specified in jail.conf) couples filters and
actions definitions for any given list of files to get monitored.

For details on the command-line options of fail2ban-server see the
fail2ban-server(1) manual page.

For details on the command-line options and commands for configuring
the server via fail2ban-client see the fail2ban-client(1) manual page.

For testing regular expressions specified in a filter using the
fail2ban-regex program may be of use and its manual page is
fail2ban-regex(1).

.SH FILES
\fI/etc/fail2ban/*\fR
.SH AUTHOR
Manual page written by Daniel Black and Yaroslav Halchenko
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2013
.br
Copyright of modifications held by their respective authors.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL).
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.br 
fail2ban-server(1)
fail2ban-client(1)
fail2ban-regex(1)
jail.conf(5)