How To Install fail2ban-firewalld on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fail2ban-firewalld on Rocky Linux 8.

What is fail2ban-firewalld

This package enables support for manipulating firewalld rules. This is the default firewall service in Fedora.

We can use yum or dnf to install fail2ban-firewalld on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fail2ban-firewalld.

Install fail2ban-firewalld on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fail2ban-firewalld using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fail2ban-firewalld

Install fail2ban-firewalld on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fail2ban-firewalld using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fail2ban-firewalld

How To Uninstall fail2ban-firewalld on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the fail2ban-firewalld package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fail2ban-firewalld

fail2ban-firewalld Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/fail2ban/jail.d/00-firewalld.conf

References

• fail2ban-firewalld website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fail2ban-firewalld on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.