I have applied this and test it looks like its working better, found in the ubuntu forums...
failregex = \(\S+\[<HOST>\]\)[: -]+ USER \S+: no such user found from \S+ \[[0-9.]+\] to \S+:\S+$ \(\S+\[<HOST>\]\)[: -]+ USER \S+ \(Login failed\): Incorrect password\.$ \(\S+\[<HOST>\]\)[: -]+ SECURITY VIOLATION: \S+ login attempted\.$ \(\S+\[<HOST>\]\)[: -]+ Maximum login attempts \(\d+\) exceeded$ USER \S+: no such user found from \S* ?\[<HOST>\] to \S+\s*$ Homer Parker wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 13:24 +0200, mrfroasty wrote: > >> Actually we are talking about proftp deamon analysed using >> /var/log/auth.log. >> > > You can play with fail2ban-regex and see what it thinks. > > -- Extra details: OSS:Gentoo Linux profile:x86 Hardware:msi geforce 8600GT asus p5k-se location:/home/muhsin language(s):C/C++,VB,VHDL,bash,PHP,SQL,HTML,CSS Typo:40WPM url:http://www.mzalendo.net