From 4190113e4b5ec57fa09ed238f82fcca0bb9f6b77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Hiscocks Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 18:41:40 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] DOC: Fix jail.conf(5) man page which had duplicate {fail,ignore}regex --- man/jail.conf.5 | 11 ++--------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/jail.conf.5 b/man/jail.conf.5 index c4215fdd..db30251c 100644 --- a/man/jail.conf.5 +++ b/man/jail.conf.5 @@ -297,12 +297,12 @@ There are two filter definitions used in the [Definition] section: .TP .B failregex is the regex (\fBreg\fRular \fBex\fRpression) that will match failed attempts. The tag \fI\fR is used as part of the regex and is itself a regex -for IPv4 addresses and hostnames. fail2ban will work out which one of these it actually is. +for IPv4 addresses (and hostnames if \fBusedns\fR). Fail2Ban will work out which one of these it actually is. For multiline regexs the tag \fI\fR should be used to separate lines. This allows lines between the matched lines to continue to be searched for other failures. The tag can be used multiple times. .TP .B ignoreregex -is the regex to identify log entries that should be ignored by fail2ban, even if they match failregex. +is the regex to identify log entries that should be ignored by Fail2Ban, even if they match failregex. .PP @@ -331,13 +331,6 @@ indicates that this file is read before the [Definition] section. \fBafter\fR indicates that this file is read after the [Definition] section. -.B failregex -regex that will match failed attempts. The tag is used as part of the regex and is itself a regex -for IPv4 addresses (and hostnames if \fBusedns\fR). Fail2Ban will work out which one of these it actually is. -.TP -.B ignoreregex -regex to identify log entries that should be ignored by Fail2Ban, even if they match failregex. - .SH AUTHOR Fail2ban was originally written by Cyril Jaquier . At the moment it is maintained and further developed by Yaroslav O. Halchenko , Daniel Black and Steven Hiscocks along with a number of contributors. See \fBTHANKS\fR file shipped with Fail2Ban for a full list.