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FAIL2BAN-REGEX(1) User Commands FAIL2BAN-REGEX(1)

NAME

fail2ban-regex - test Fail2ban "failregex" option

SYNOPSIS

fail2ban-regex [ OPTIONS] <LOG> <REGEX> [IGNOREREGEX]

DESCRIPTION

Fail2Ban v0.8.2 reads log file that contains password failure report and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules.
This tools can test regular expressions for "fail2ban".

OPTIONS

-h, --help
display this help message
-V, --version
print the version

LOG

string
a string representing a log line
filename
path to a log file (/var/log/auth.log)

REGEX

string
a string representing a 'failregex'
filename
path to a filter file (filter.d/sshd.conf)

IgnoreRegex:

string
a string representing an 'ignoreregex'
filename
path to a filter file (filter.d/sshd.conf)

AUTHOR

Written by Cyril Jaquier <cyril.jaquier@fail2ban.org>. Many contributions by Yaroslav O. Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <cyril.jaquier@fail2ban.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2004-2008 Cyril Jaquier
 
Copyright of modifications held by their respective authors. Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL).

SEE ALSO

fail2ban-client(1) fail2ban-server(1)
March 2008 fail2ban-regex v0.8.2