Change permanent block to temporary

[DanH42]

I'm using a subset of the OWASP ruleset, and I'm still getting lots of false positives. Almost every time that happens, the IP responsible gets a permanent block in iptables, which I think is a little strict even if they were trying to attack the server.

I've tried Googling around a bit, and I can't find a way to make bans temporary. I think a block of 5~30 minutes would be reasonable.

[DanH42]

Update: I asked the same question on the cPanel forums, and found out there's a setting for this in CSF:

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LF_MODSEC = "10"
LF_MODSEC_PERM = "300"

This would block for 5 minutes (300 seconds) after modsec rules being triggered.