diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 99826b6..1398745 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ fail2rest has two options that be configured via config.json * **Fail2banSocket** - The path to the fail2ban socket, can usually be found via `grep socket /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf` you also have to run fail2rest as a user who has permissions to use this socket * **Addr** - The address that fail2rest is served upon, it is usually best so serve to the loopback, and then allow access via nginx see an example config in the [fail2web](https://github.com/Sean-Der/fail2web) repository -The default configuration file used by init-scripts is `/etc/fail2rest.json`. You should download the config to your /tmp/ dir and modify it to your needs. +The default configuration file used by init-scripts is `/etc/fail2rest.json`. You should download the config to your /tmp/ dir and modify it to your needs. cd /tmp/ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sean-Der/fail2rest/master/config.json - + Once you finished editing the configuration file, you should move it from /tmp/config.json to /etc/fail2rest.json executing `mv /tmp/config.json /etc/fail2rest.json` ##Running @@ -46,24 +46,25 @@ However, fail2rest is designed to run as a service, so init scripts are provided Download the appropriate init file your Distribution. You may need to customize your init script to load your config.json, but most scripts default to /etc/fail2rest.json ##Service +###systemd To run as a service you can either copy or create symlinks for systemd and the fail2rest binary. The systemd file shold be added to /etc/systemd/system/fail2rest.service and the the binary to /usr/bin/fail2rest. This scenario will use the symlinks in order to always use the latest files. You should run the commands with sudo if not logged in as root: ln -s $GOPATH/bin/fail2rest /usr/bin/ -Debian +Debian ln -s $GOPATH/src/github.com/Sean-Der/fail2rest/init-scripts/systemd /etc/systemd/system/fail2rest.service - + Other Linux ln -s $GOPATH/src/github.com/Sean-Der/fail2rest/init-scripts/systemd /usr/lib/systemd/system/fail2rest.service Enable fail2rest service to run at startup - - systemctl enable fail2rest.service + + systemctl enable fail2rest.service Run the following systemd command to start the fail2rest service - + systemctl start fail2rest.service Verify that the fail2rest service it is active and running