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



NAME
       fail2ban-server - start the server

SYNOPSIS
       fail2ban-server [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION
       Fail2Ban  v0.11.2  reads  log  file that contains password failure report and bans the corre‐
       sponding 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)



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