slackbuilds_ponce/network/fail2ban
Robby Workman 143991a46e Entire Repo: Remove APPROVED field from .info files
This field used to make sense in our pre-git days, but
the Signed-Off-By: line serves the same purpose (and
even more) now, so APPROVED has been rejected.  ;-)

Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
2012-08-14 23:22:50 -05:00
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doinst.sh network/fail2ban: Updated for version 0.8.6. 2011-12-27 10:15:06 -06:00
fail2ban.info Entire Repo: Remove APPROVED field from .info files 2012-08-14 23:22:50 -05:00
fail2ban.logrotate network/fail2ban: Added to 12.0 repository 2010-05-11 20:01:32 +02:00
fail2ban.SlackBuild network/fail2ban: Updated for version 0.8.6. 2011-12-27 10:15:06 -06:00
rc.fail2ban network/fail2ban: Updated for version 0.8.6. 2011-12-27 10:15:06 -06:00
README network/fail2ban: Updated for version 0.8.4 2010-05-13 00:36:23 +02:00
README.SBo network/fail2ban: Updated for version 0.8.6. 2011-12-27 10:15:06 -06:00
slack-desc network/fail2ban: Updated for version 0.8.6. 2011-12-27 10:15:06 -06:00

Fail2Ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail and bans IP that makes
too many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the 
IP address. These rules can be defined by the user. Fail2Ban can read
multiple log files such as sshd, Apache web server, postfix and others.

fail2ban has following dependencies which are offical Slackware packages:
1. Python >= 2.3 Required 
2. gamin >= 0.0.21 Optional

Also see README.SBo for configuration and upgrade help.