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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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