Setup Fail2Ban on FreeBSD

Noel Jones noeldude at gmail.com
Fri Apr 23 20:21:37 UTC 2010


On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:49 PM, 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..
>

add the line:
fail2ban_enable="YES"
to /etc/rc.conf


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