Fail2Ban v0.9.7 Copyright (c) 2004-2008 Cyril Jaquier, 2008- Fail2Ban Contributors Copyright of modifications held by their respective authors. Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL). Written by Cyril Jaquier <cyril.jaquier@fail2ban.org>. Many contributions by Yaroslav O. Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>.

Usage: /usr/bin/fail2ban-client [OPTIONS] <COMMAND> Fail2Ban v0.9.7 reads log file that contains password failure report and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules. Options: -c <DIR> configuration directory -s <FILE> socket path -p <FILE> pidfile path -d dump configuration. For debugging -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 (note that the client forks once itself) -h, --help display this help message -V, --version print the version Command: BASIC start starts the server and the jails reload reloads the configuration reload <JAIL> reloads the jail <JAIL> stop stops all jails and terminate the server status gets the current status of the server ping tests if the server is alive help return this output version return the server version LOGGING set loglevel <LEVEL> sets logging level to <LEVEL>. Levels: CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG get loglevel gets the logging level set logtarget <TARGET> sets logging target to <TARGET>. Can be STDOUT, STDERR, SYSLOG or a file get logtarget gets logging target set syslogsocket auto|<SOCKET> sets the syslog socket path to auto or <SOCKET>. Only used if logtarget is SYSLOG get syslogsocket gets syslog socket path flushlogs flushes the logtarget if a file and reopens it. For log rotation. DATABASE set dbfile <FILE> set the location of fail2ban persistent datastore. Set to "None" to disable get dbfile get the location of fail2ban persistent datastore set dbpurgeage <SECONDS> sets the max age in <SECONDS> that history of bans will be kept get dbpurgeage gets the max age in seconds that history of bans will be kept JAIL CONTROL add <JAIL> <BACKEND> creates <JAIL> using <BACKEND> start <JAIL> starts the jail <JAIL> stop <JAIL> stops the jail <JAIL>. The jail is removed status <JAIL> [FLAVOR] gets the current status of <JAIL>, with optional flavor or extended info JAIL CONFIGURATION set <JAIL> idle on|off sets the idle state of <JAIL> set <JAIL> addignoreip <IP> adds <IP> to the ignore list of <JAIL> set <JAIL> delignoreip <IP> removes <IP> from the ignore list of <JAIL> set <JAIL> addlogpath <FILE> ['tail'] adds <FILE> to the monitoring list of <JAIL>, optionally starting at the 'tail' of the file (default 'head'). set <JAIL> dellogpath <FILE> removes <FILE> from the monitoring list of <JAIL> set <JAIL> logencoding <ENCODING> sets the <ENCODING> of the log files for <JAIL> set <JAIL> addjournalmatch <MATCH> adds <MATCH> to the journal filter of <JAIL> set <JAIL> deljournalmatch <MATCH> removes <MATCH> from the journal filter of <JAIL> set <JAIL> addfailregex <REGEX> adds the regular expression <REGEX> which must match failures for <JAIL> set <JAIL> delfailregex <INDEX> removes the regular expression at <INDEX> for failregex set <JAIL> ignorecommand <VALUE> sets ignorecommand of <JAIL> set <JAIL> addignoreregex <REGEX> adds the regular expression <REGEX> which should match pattern to exclude for <JAIL> set <JAIL> delignoreregex <INDEX> removes the regular expression at <INDEX> for ignoreregex set <JAIL> findtime <TIME> sets the number of seconds <TIME> for which the filter will look back for <JAIL> set <JAIL> bantime <TIME> sets the number of seconds <TIME> a host will be banned for <JAIL> set <JAIL> datepattern <PATTERN> sets the <PATTERN> used to match date/times for <JAIL> set <JAIL> usedns <VALUE> sets the usedns mode for <JAIL> set <JAIL> banip <IP> manually Ban <IP> for <JAIL> set <JAIL> unbanip <IP> manually Unban <IP> in <JAIL> set <JAIL> maxretry <RETRY> sets the number of failures <RETRY> before banning the host for <JAIL> set <JAIL> maxlines <LINES> sets the number of <LINES> to buffer for regex search for <JAIL> set <JAIL> addaction <ACT>[ <PYTHONFILE> <JSONKWARGS>] adds a new action named <ACT> for <JAIL>. Optionally for a Python based action, a <PYTHONFILE> and <JSONKWARGS> can be specified, else will be a Command Action set <JAIL> delaction <ACT> removes the action <ACT> from <JAIL> COMMAND ACTION CONFIGURATION set <JAIL> action <ACT> actionstart <CMD> sets the start command <CMD> of the action <ACT> for <JAIL> set <JAIL> action <ACT> actionstop <CMD> sets the stop command <CMD> of the action <ACT> for <JAIL> set <JAIL> action <ACT> actioncheck <CMD> sets the check command <CMD> of the action <ACT> for <JAIL> set <JAIL> action <ACT> actionban <CMD> sets the ban command <CMD> of the action <ACT> for <JAIL> set <JAIL> action <ACT> actionunban <CMD> sets the unban command <CMD> of the action <ACT> for <JAIL> set <JAIL> action <ACT> timeout <TIMEOUT> sets <TIMEOUT> as the command timeout in seconds for the action <ACT> for <JAIL> GENERAL ACTION CONFIGURATION set <JAIL> action <ACT> <PROPERTY> <VALUE> sets the <VALUE> of <PROPERTY> for the action <ACT> for <JAIL> set <JAIL> action <ACT> <METHOD>[ <JSONKWARGS>] calls the <METHOD> with <JSONKWARGS> for the action <ACT> for <JAIL> JAIL INFORMATION get <JAIL> logpath gets the list of the monitored files for <JAIL> get <JAIL> logencoding gets the encoding of the log files for <JAIL> get <JAIL> journalmatch gets the journal filter match for <JAIL> get <JAIL> ignoreip gets the list of ignored IP addresses for <JAIL> get <JAIL> ignorecommand gets ignorecommand of <JAIL> get <JAIL> failregex gets the list of regular expressions which matches the failures for <JAIL> get <JAIL> ignoreregex gets the list of regular expressions which matches patterns to ignore for <JAIL> get <JAIL> findtime gets the time for which the filter will look back for failures for <JAIL> get <JAIL> bantime gets the time a host is banned for <JAIL> get <JAIL> datepattern gets the patern used to match date/times for <JAIL> get <JAIL> usedns gets the usedns setting for <JAIL> get <JAIL> maxretry gets the number of failures allowed for <JAIL> get <JAIL> maxlines gets the number of lines to buffer for <JAIL> get <JAIL> actions gets a list of actions for <JAIL> COMMAND ACTION INFORMATION get <JAIL> action <ACT> actionstart gets the start command for the action <ACT> for <JAIL> get <JAIL> action <ACT> actionstop gets the stop command for the action <ACT> for <JAIL> get <JAIL> action <ACT> actioncheck gets the check command for the action <ACT> for <JAIL> get <JAIL> action <ACT> actionban gets the ban command for the action <ACT> for <JAIL> get <JAIL> action <ACT> actionunban gets the unban command for the action <ACT> for <JAIL> get <JAIL> action <ACT> timeout gets the command timeout in seconds for the action <ACT> for <JAIL> GENERAL ACTION INFORMATION get <JAIL> actionproperties <ACT> gets a list of properties for the action <ACT> for <JAIL> get <JAIL> actionmethods <ACT> gets a list of methods for the action <ACT> for <JAIL> get <JAIL> action <ACT> <PROPERTY> gets the value of <PROPERTY> for the action <ACT> for <JAIL> Report bugs to https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues