diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
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+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ config/action.d/sendmail-whois-lines.conf
 config/action.d/shorewall.conf
 config/fail2ban.conf
 man/fail2ban-client.1
+man/fail2ban.1
 man/jail.conf.5
 man/fail2ban-client.h2m
 man/fail2ban-server.1
diff --git a/man/fail2ban.1 b/man/fail2ban.1
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+.TH FAIL2BAN "1"
+.SH NAME
+fail2ban \- a set of server and client programs to limit brute force authentication attempts.
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Fail2Ban consists of a client, server and some configuration files to achieve limiting 
+brute force of authenitcation attempts.
+
+The server program is \fBfail2ban-server\fR which is configured from the configuration files. The
+fail2ban-server can also be configured using the \fBfail2ban-client\fR. 
+
+For details on the configuration of fail2ban see the jail.conf(5) manual page.
+
+For details on the configuration of fail2ban-server see the fail2ban-server(1) manual page.
+
+For details on the configuration of fail2ban-client see the fail2ban-client(1) manual page.
+
+For testing regular expressions assocated with filter using the fail2ban-regex program may be of
+use and its manual page is fail2ban-regex(1).
+
+.SH FILES
+\fI/etc/fail2ban/*\fR
+.SH AUTHOR
+Manual page written by Daniel Black
+.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
+Report bugs to https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+Copyright \(co 2013
+.br
+Copyright of modifications held by their respective authors.
+Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL).
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.br 
+fail2ban-server(1)
+fail2ban-client(1)
+jail.conf(5)
+fail2ban-regex(1)