Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 21:16:11 -0400 From: Dan McGrath <danmcgrath.ca@gmail.com> To: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> Cc: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>, FreeBSD <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Alternatives to security/swatch Message-ID: <CAK82gMHLzMbr6%2BDW8803CdRyXPuHHK=31h6H1KWVw7dOAEz9xg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <781a0f93-f5dc-9357-0a68-48a8c84478e3@madpilot.net> References: <be40f385-a7f8-0275-8c63-d581234cc060@netfence.it> <781a0f93-f5dc-9357-0a68-48a8c84478e3@madpilot.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi, Just a heads up that I also had bug report #243609 [1] open on this that I guess can/should be closed now. Dan [1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243609 On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 3:57 AM Guido Falsi via freebsd-ports < freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 15/03/20 18:09, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I'm using security/swatch to look *in real time* for specific strings in > > my logs, but now it's deprecated because it's unfetchable. > > > > Can someone suggest an alternative? > > > > N.B. I'm not looking for something that will parse logs at specified > > times (e.g. run from cron); I already have logcheck. > > I'm using swatch, in addition to that, to look for things that require > > immediate attention, by piping syslogd into it. > > > > Bonus for not requiring too many dependencies :) > > In the past I've used misc/logsurfer for such purpose. > > I'm not using it anymore since I'm now using fail2ban for the purpose. > BTW it also does monitor log files in real time and with clever > programming could also work as a notification system, but I agree that's > not it's primary purpose. > > -- > Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Cheers, Danny ---------------------------------------------------------- Danny McGrath - danmcgrath.ca@gmail.com GPG key: EDF6 AFF5 2086 F93A 1F59 36A5 44B6 26F3 6968 71CA
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?CAK82gMHLzMbr6%2BDW8803CdRyXPuHHK=31h6H1KWVw7dOAEz9xg>