Setup Fail2Ban on FreeBSD

[Chris Rees]

On 23 April 2010 18:49, 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


What everyone else has missed out is that ports install their rc files
into /usr/local/etc/rc.d, rather than /etc which is reserved for the
base system. Fail2ban already installs an rc.d script, so you don't
need to do anything.

So, /etc/rc.conf can be used, and add

fail2ban_enable="YES"

Then from the prompt run:

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fail2ban start

Chris