FAIL2BAN-SERVER(1)                        User Commands                        FAIL2BAN-SERVER(1)



NAME
       fail2ban-server - start the server

SYNOPSIS
       fail2ban-server [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION
       Fail2Ban  v0.8.13 reads log file that contains password failure report and bans the corre‐
       sponding 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 AT fail2ban.org>.  Many contributions by Yaroslav O.
       Halchenko <debian AT onerussian.com>.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs via Debian bug tracking system http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ .

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2004-2008 Cyril Jaquier, 2008- Fail2Ban Contributors
       Copyright of modifications held by their respective authors.  Licensed under the GNU  Gen‐
       eral Public License v2 (GPL).

SEE ALSO
       fail2ban-client(1)



fail2ban-server v0.8.13                     March 2014                         FAIL2BAN-SERVER(1)