Fail2ban

Fail2Ban Installation from GitHub (EN)

In case an existing Fail2Ban server is running:

sudo service fail2ban stop

Download version 0.10 from GitHub:

wget https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/archive/0.10.0.tar.gz -O fail2ban-0.10.0.tar.gz

Unpack and install:
<source>sudo tar -zxpvf fail2ban-0.10.0.tar.gz

cd fail2ban-0.10.0

sudo python setup.py install

This will install Fail2Ban into the python library directory. The executable scripts are placed into /usr/local/bin and configuration under /etc/fail2ban.

Enable fail2ban as an automatic service:

sudo cp files/debian-initd /etc/init.d/fail2ban

sudo update-rc.d fail2ban defaults

sudo service fail2ban start