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01. Introduction 02. Installing Fail2Ban 03. Convenience script 04. Applying changes (restarting Fail2Ban) 05. fail2ban.conf 06. jail.local 07. Jails 08. The UFW filter 09. UFW action file 10. Recidivists (repeat offenders) 11. Final thoughts
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04. Applying changes (restarting Fail2Ban)
Asif Bacchus edited this page 2019-05-21 07:16:05 -06:00
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Restarting Fail2Ban

After updating your configuration files, copying configuration files from this repo, and/or using the Convenience Script, you must restart Fail2Ban to activate changes. This is a simple 3 step process.

  1. Restart F2B service
  2. Check status of F2B
  3. Confirm via F2B-client
systemctl restart fail2ban.service
systemctl --full --no-pager status fail2ban.service
fail2ban-client status