well - status has being there for quite a while > invoke-rc.d fail2ban status Status of authentication failure monitor: fail2ban is running
but the question is actually an attempt to disambiguate behavior/output of start/stop actions in cases when it was already started/stopped since there is no clear statement in policy, neither in dev-ref about this. On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Jц╤rg Sommer wrote: > Is it possible to provide a status target? If so Martin can use > % fail2ban status; fail2ban start > Bye, Jц╤rg. -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555]