Hi Yaroslav, You're right of course, and I always try and contribute where and when I can. I did what I could and wrote down my experience: http://yalis.fr/cms/index.php/post/2014/11/02/Migrate-from-DenyHosts-to-Fail2ban
But willing is not enough; I just do not have the knowledge! So far, I faithfully keep every empty line, every standard comment, every indentation... I have no idea where comments are allowed and where they are not. I think I correctly inferred some of the syntax, but I can not be sure. The very least the official documentation should write down is the formal syntax of the configuration files, in my opinion. Now, don't read this as a critic of the project. I understand that people made fail2ban in their own free time, and maintain it the same way. I am grateful to them. The way I see things, the limited amount of available help, be it through chat or wiki, is NOT a symptom of unhelpfulness, but rather the sign of a small dev team. That is what I was surprised about: that such a much used project would still have such a small dev team. I wish the fail2ban project all the best, and once again I thank its developers for it. Yves. Le 2014-12-13 19:30, Yaroslav Halchenko a écrit : > Contributions to improve documentation are always welcome! > > On December 11, 2014 3:59:34 AM EST, Yves <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Michael, >> >> Le 2014-12-11 09:49, Michael Horne a écrit : >>> Hi Yves, >>> >>> thank you for the fast reply this morning, >>> >>> I've used a mixture of just plain IP's (192.168.1.1 for instance) and >>> also IP's with CIDR. >>> >>> the documentation says that you can use either format, should I amend >>> all of my addresses to use the CIDR format? >> >> Honestly, I do not know. I just know that it works for me the way I >> wrote it. I'm new to fail2ban myself, and discovered, while setting it >> up, that documentation and help are both in limited quantities :-/ >> Strange, given that fail2ban is rather mainstream… >> >> --Yves. >> (please post answers to the list ;-) ) >> >>> >>> thanks >>> >>> Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fail2ban-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users
