From 7b708c3f19f8da28fe39e97994594f89da9898eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Asif Bacchus <asif@programming.bacchus.network>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 15:58:30 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fail2ban general settings

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 etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.local | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.local

diff --git a/etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.local b/etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.local
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..850d400
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.local
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#######
+### This file overrides the default settings found in /etc/fail2ban.conf
+### Customizations should be written here so that updates do NOT overwrite them!
+#######
+
+### Set logging options
+## verbosity -- options: CRITICAL, ERROR (default), WARNING, NOTICE, INFO, DEBUG
+loglevel = INFO
+## log file location (suggest: /var/log/fail2ban.log)
+logtarget = /var/log/fail2ban.log
+
+### Amount of time (in seconds) before HISTORY of bans are cleared. (NOTE: NOT
+### active bans! This is a record of previous)
+## Default: 86400 (1 day), Suggest: 604800 (7 days)
+dbpurgeage = 604800