Setup Fail2Ban on FreeBSD

[Zhu Jing]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Bauer, Aaron J. <AARON.J.BAUER at saic.com>wrote:

> I am currently using FreeNAS 0.7 for a file server.  I have multiple SSH
> bruteforce attacks each week, and wish to use fail2ban to prevent this.
>
> I don't have much experience with BSD, and am having trouble getting
> everything to work.  I ran pkg_add -r python25 and pkg_add -r py25-fail2ban.
>  I now have all the files for Fail2Ban, and did the cp jail.conf jail.local
> as the other distro's for linux use.
>
> However, how do I start using fail2ban?  I have configured it for CentOS
> and Ubuntu, and it starts in init.d.  I don't know how to add it to
> /etc/rc.d to get it to work correctly..
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.  If you need more info, please let me
> know.
>
> Aaron
> Software Research Intern
> Aaron.J.Bauer at SAIC.com
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http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/configtuning-rcd.html
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t is easy to check if a service is enabled in /etc/rc.conf by running the
appropriate rc.d script with the option rcvar. Thus, an administrator can
check that sshd is in fact enabled in /etc/rc.conf by running:

# /etc/rc.d/sshd rcvar
# sshd
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$sshd_enable=YES