fail2ban-server - start the server
fail2ban-server [OPTIONS]
Fail2Ban v0.11.2 reads log file that contains password failure
report and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules.
- -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)
Report bugs via Debian bug tracking system
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ .