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FAIL2BA-SERVER
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: April 2024
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NAME
fail2ba-server - start the serverSYNOPSIS
fail2ba-server [,OPTIONS/]DESCRIPTION
Fail2Ban v1.1.0 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.
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--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 to https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issuesSEE ALSO
fail2ba-client(1)