On Thursday, August 21, 2008 9:28 AM +0300 Jussi Hirvi <greenspot at greenspot.fi> wrote: > Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> escribio (20.8.2008 22:55) >> The installation is easy, but the configuration looks daunting. There's a >> bunch of "jails" and it looks like I need to study fail2ban's model to >> understand what those do. > > What do you mean by "jail"? I didn't find that word in my fail2ban.conf > (dated "2005.06.21"). I needed to change the default conf only very > slightly (mainly time constants, on/off switches for tasks, and or log > file paths). I installed fail2ban-0.8.2-2.el5.rf. It includes a separate jail.conf file. <http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/MANUAL_0_8#Jails>