table of contents
other versions
- stretch 0.9.6-2
- testing 0.10.2-2.1
- stretch-backports 0.10.2-2~bpo9+1
- unstable 0.10.2-2.1
FAIL2BAN-SERVER(1) | User Commands | FAIL2BAN-SERVER(1) |
NAME¶
fail2ban-server - start the serverSYNOPSIS¶
fail2ban-server [OPTIONS]DESCRIPTION¶
Fail2Ban v0.9.6 reads log file that contains password failure report and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules.Only use this command for debugging purpose. Start the server with fail2ban-client instead. The default behaviour is to start the server in background.
OPTIONS¶
- -b
- start in background
- -f
- start in foreground
- -s <FILE>
- socket path
- -p <FILE>
- pidfile path
- -x
- force execution of the server (remove socket file)
- -h, --help
- display this help message
- -V, --version
- print the version
AUTHOR¶
Written by Cyril Jaquier <cyril.jaquier@fail2ban.org>. Many contributions by Yaroslav O. Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>.REPORTING BUGS¶
Report bugs via Debian bug tracking system http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ .COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2004-2008 Cyril Jaquier, 2008- Fail2Ban ContributorsCopyright of modifications held by their respective authors. Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL).
SEE ALSO¶
fail2ban-client(1)December 2016 | fail2ban-server v0.9.6 |