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📛 NAME

fail2ban-server - start the server

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🎬 Start server (background, default)	fail2ban-server -b	Starts the server in background mode (default)
🖥️ Start server in foreground	fail2ban-server -f	Runs server in foreground, useful for debugging
🧪 Test configuration	fail2ban-server -t	Validates the configuration without starting
🐛 Dump configuration	fail2ban-server -d	Prints the parsed configuration
💬 Interactive mode	fail2ban-server -i	Starts server in interactive mode
📁 Specify config directory	fail2ban-server -c /path/to/config	Sets the configuration directory
🔌 Specify socket path	fail2ban-server -s /path/to/socket	Uses a custom socket file
🗣️ Increase verbosity	fail2ban-server -v	Adds one level of verbosity (can be stacked)
🔇 Decrease verbosity	fail2ban-server -q	Reduces verbosity level
🚫 Force execution	fail2ban-server -x	Removes old socket file and starts
ℹ️ Display help	fail2ban-server -h	Shows this help message
ℹ️ Display version	fail2ban-server -V	Prints version information

📋 SYNOPSIS

fail2ban-server [OPTIONS]

📖 DESCRIPTION

Fail2Ban v0.11.2 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> — syslog socket 🧩
• -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 ℹ️
• -V, --version — print the version (-V returns machine-readable short format) ℹ️

🐛 REPORTING BUGS

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

📚 SEE ALSO

fail2ban-client(1)

fail2ban-server v0.11.2 · November 2020 · FAIL2BAN-SERVER(1)

📛 NAME 🚀 Quick Reference 📋 SYNOPSIS 📖 DESCRIPTION ⚙️ OPTIONS 🐛 REPORTING BUGS 📚 SEE ALSO