On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Sean DuBois wrote: > > A question for you: Why does the tool monitor the fail2ban log? Why not > > design it as an action which could be added to the existing actions for > > a jail?
> > > i know there are other ideas out there for this need, but zeromq looked > > > appropiate enough, and is well supported on Debian/Ubuntu for python3 > > > I have to polish the code, add docs, and also try configuring it as a > > > fail2ban action instead of an ad-hoc app that monitors the log, but it > > > is > > > working. > > > If anyone wants to help me polish and test it, that'd be awesome. why not to just push it into public location and share a link? ;) I would also second reusing fail2ban mechanisms instead of relying on parsing its log file (we know how things could go wrong with parsing/monitoring ;) ). Especially since actions could be defined in pure python (see eg config/action.d/*py) and that would avoid "small scripts" issue, would guarantee staying coherent and tested within fail2ban. -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Research Scientist, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fail2ban-users mailing list Fail2ban-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users
