FAIL2BAN-SERVER
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: November 2022
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NAME
fail2ban-server - start the server
SYNOPSIS
fail2ban-server
[,OPTIONS/]
DESCRIPTION
Fail2Ban v1.0.2 reads log file that contains password failure report
and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules.
OPTIONS
- -c, --conf <DIR>
-
configuration directory
- -s, --socket <FILE>
-
socket path
- -p, --pidfile <FILE>
-
pidfile path
- --pname <NAME>
-
name of the process (main thread) to identify instance (default fail2ban-server)
- --loglevel <LEVEL>
-
logging level
- --logtarget <TARGET>
-
logging target, use file-name or stdout, stderr, syslog or sysout.
-
--syslogsocket auto|<FILE>
- -d
-
- dump configuration. For debugging
- --dp, --dump-pretty
-
dump the configuration using more human readable representation
- -t, --test
-
test configuration (can be also specified with start parameters)
- -i
-
interactive mode
- -v
-
increase verbosity
- -q
-
decrease verbosity
- -x
-
force execution of the server (remove socket file)
- -b
-
start server in background (default)
- -f
-
start server in foreground
- --async
-
start server in async mode (for internal usage only, don't read configuration)
- --timeout
-
timeout to wait for the server (for internal usage only, don't read configuration)
- --str2sec <STRING>
-
convert time abbreviation format to seconds
- -h, --help
-
display this help message
- -V, --version
-
print the version (-V returns machine-readable short format)
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs via Debian bug tracking system http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ .
SEE ALSO
fail2ban-client(1)
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- SEE ALSO
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