On Fri, 04 Jan 2013, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > fail2ban-client get logtarget | sed -ne '$s/^[-` ]*//gp' > Damn... I'm so blind... reading several times over these -client options > and even get logtarget... but not realising that this was exactly what I > wanted...
sorry that you spend the time elaborating an alternative solution > So we could make something like your regexp to re-set the current > logtarget. > But another thing: > Just because we make the postrotate phase dynamic... the lograte snippet > still applies to /var/log/fail2ban.log only. > So the only advantage would be that the user only needs to update the > first line of the lograte config snippet. > Neither would it solve the "problem" of useless rotation tries when e.g. > SYSLOG is used. arghm -- we forgotten about the elephant(s) ;) so -- the best resolution might be -- DOCUMENTATION in /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf may be smth as concise as # Option: logtarget # Notes.: Set the log target. This could be a file, SYSLOG, STDERR or STDOUT. # Only one log target can be specified. # If you change logtarget from the default value -- also adjust # /etc/logrotate.d/fail2ban # Values: STDOUT STDERR SYSLOG file Default: /var/log/fail2ban.log # logtarget = /var/log/fail2ban.log ;) -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org