# Fail2Ban main configuration file # # Comments: use '#' for comment lines and ';' (following a space) for inline comments # # Changes: in most of the cases you should not modify this # file, but provide customizations in fail2ban.local file, e.g.: # # [Definition] # loglevel = DEBUG # [Definition] # Option: loglevel # Notes.: Set the log level output. # CRITICAL # ERROR # WARNING # NOTICE # INFO # DEBUG # Values: [ LEVEL ] Default: ERROR # loglevel = INFO # Option: logtarget # Notes.: Set the log target. This could be a file, SYSLOG, STDERR or STDOUT. # Only one log target can be specified. # If you change logtarget from the default value and you are # using logrotate -- also adjust or disable rotation in the # corresponding configuration file # (e.g. /etc/logrotate.d/fail2ban on Debian systems) # Values: [ STDOUT | STDERR | SYSLOG | FILE ] Default: STDERR # logtarget = /var/log/fail2ban.log # Option: syslogsocket # Notes: Set the syslog socket file. Only used when logtarget is SYSLOG # auto uses platform.system() to determine predefined paths # Values: [ auto | FILE ] Default: auto syslogsocket = auto # Option: socket # Notes.: Set the socket file. This is used to communicate with the daemon. Do # not remove this file when Fail2ban runs. It will not be possible to # communicate with the server afterwards. # Values: [ FILE ] Default: /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock # socket = /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock # Option: pidfile # Notes.: Set the PID file. This is used to store the process ID of the # fail2ban server. # Values: [ FILE ] Default: /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid # pidfile = /var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid # Options: dbfile # Notes.: Set the file for the fail2ban persistent data to be stored. # A value of ":memory:" means database is only stored in memory # and data is lost when fail2ban is stopped. # A value of "None" disables the database. # Values: [ None :memory: FILE ] Default: /var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3 dbfile = /var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3 # Options: dbpurgeage # Notes.: Sets age at which bans should be purged from the database # Values: [ SECONDS ] Default: 86400 (24hours) dbpurgeage = 86400