fail2ban-regex

This tools can test regular expressions for fail2ban.

Documentation

• man 1 'fail2ban-regex' [EN]

Examples

Test a new filter on a log file

fail2ban-regex '/var/log/httpd/error_log' '/etc/fail2ban/filter.d/apache-auth.conf'

Output:

Running tests
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Use regex file : /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/apache-auth.conf
Use log file   : /var/log/httpd/error_log


Results
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Failregex
|- Regular expressions:
|  [1] [[]client <HOST>[]] user .* authentication failure
|  [2] [[]client <HOST>[]] user .* not found
|  [3] [[]client <HOST>[]] user .* password mismatch
|
`- Number of matches:
   [1] 0 match(es)
   [2] 2 match(es)
   [3] 0 match(es)

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