Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:32:20 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: "Bauer, Aaron J." <AARON.J.BAUER@saic.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Setup Fail2Ban on FreeBSD Message-ID: <p2qb79ecaef1004241132iae4e545fz7a13355252644957@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <FFD86018-E200-4471-B65D-A4CDC0505BE4@mimectl> References: <FFD86018-E200-4471-B65D-A4CDC0505BE4@mimectl>
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On 23 April 2010 18:49, Bauer, Aaron J. <AARON.J.BAUER@saic.com> wrote: > I am currently using FreeNAS 0.7 for a file server. =A0I have multiple SS= H 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 ever= ything to work. =A0I ran pkg_add -r python25 and pkg_add -r py25-fail2ban. = =A0I now have all the files for Fail2Ban, and did the cp jail.conf jail.loc= al as the other distro's for linux use. > > However, how do I start using fail2ban? =A0I have configured it for CentO= S and Ubuntu, and it starts in init.d. =A0I don't know how to add it to /et= c/rc.d to get it to work correctly.. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. =A0If you need more info, please let me = know. > > Aaron > Software Research Intern > Aaron.J.Bauer@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=3D"YES" Then from the prompt run: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fail2ban start Chris
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