fail2ban-client status <JAIL> [FLAVOR] <-- What is [FLAVOR]?

[frankmcc]

Excuse my ignorance, if there is documentation on this I have not found it. It probably doesn't matter but I am so friggin curious I cannot stand it.

What is the FLAVOR option? Can it be helpful to me? Can I just insert any Flavor? Vanilla? Chocolate? Cookie-Dough? Ca I get sprinkles on top?

Is this feature simply undocumented or a mistake in the documentation?

My Monday is ruined now...

[sebres]

Can I just insert any Flavor?

Indeed you can (welcome with PR).

Vanilla? Chocolate? Cookie-Dough?

An attempt to invoke fail2ban-client status sshd vanilla would just output basic status and write following warning to fail2ban.log:

WARNING Unsupported extended jail status flavor 'vanilla'. Supported: ['short', 'basic', 'cymru']

Initially it got introduced in #924 to output extended info for IP in status using Cymru.
Later it was extended (in f381b98) with option short to provide more clear output (#2819).

So at the moment it is short, basic and cymru.
And who knows which "flavors" we'd still support tomorrow.

Is this feature simply undocumented or a mistake in the documentation?

Would you like to contribute and extend the documentation? Then welcome with PR.

[frankmcc]

Thank you for the explanation. I can go on with Monday now. :)