On Thursday 03 December 2020 09:14:29 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 09:02:47AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Yes John. But explain to me what fail2ban is sopposed to do? > > It's supposed to "monitor" (tail -F equivalent) your log files, and > look for anomalies. If it finds one, it's supposed to take action, > which is typically adding an entry to iptables. > > > Its running, but has failed to ban anything no matter what sort of > > 403's I return. > > You need to configure it. Tell it what log files to read, what is to > be considered an anomaly, and what action to take.
And where do I do that? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
