FAIL2BAN-REGEX(1)

NAME
fail2ban-regex - test Fail2ban "failregex" option

SYNOPSIS
fail2ban-regex [OPTIONS] <LOG> <REGEX> [IGNOREREGEX]

DESCRIPTION
Fail2Ban v0.8.2 reads log file that contains password failure report and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules.

This tools can test regular expressions for "fail2ban".

OPTIONS

-h, --help
    display this help message

-V, --version
    print the version

LOG

string
    a string representing a log line

filename
    path to a log file (/var/log/auth.log)

REGEX

string
    a string representing a 'failregex'

filename
    path to a filter file (filter.d/sshd.conf)

  IgnoreRegex:

string
    a string representing an 'ignoreregex'

filename
    path to a filter file (filter.d/sshd.conf)

AUTHOR
Written by Cyril Jaquier <cyril.jaquier@fail2ban.org>. Many contributions by Yaroslav O. Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>.

REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <cyril.jaquier@fail2ban.org>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2004-2008 Cyril Jaquier
Copyright of modifications held by their respective authors. Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL).

SEE ALSO
fail2ban-client(1) fail2ban-server(1)