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06-06-2012

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A very simple start: pick the open source software you use most often, register with their bug tracking system, and start testing the newest builds. When something breaks, try to repeat it, and send it in with instructions on how to reproduce, what happens, ...

Over time you might start looking at the code to see why it breaks, or how to improve the documentation.

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fail2ban-server

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

NAME

       fail2ban-server - start the server

SYNOPSIS

       fail2ban-server [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       Fail2Ban v0.8.2 reads log file that contains password failure report and bans the corresponding 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

       -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@fail2ban.org>.  Many contributions by Yaroslav O. Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>.

REPORTING BUGS

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

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 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 v0.8.2						    March 2008							FAIL2BAN-SERVER(1)