How about having some perl-program sitting on your syslog-file doing something about refused connects in near-real-time? I have such running, so if anybody wants the (ugly!) code, just yell ;-)
Or you could quick&dirty just rotate your syslog-file daily... hth, &rw On Tue, 16 May 2000 13:41:00 BST, "Oliver Schoenknecht" writes: >Hi there, > >I am planning to do a daily system check with refused connects by >placing them in a cron job. So far, so good. But - and that's the >problem - does anyone know how to tell the "grep"-command to >filter just the refused connects of today and not all those which are >two weeks old ? This should happen each day frequently so any >help would be appreciated very well... > >Thanks in advance, > >Oliver -- / Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Phone: +43 1 89933 0 Fax x533 \ \ KPNQwest/AT tech staff | Diefenbachg. 35 A-1150 Wien /