On 14-May-2009, at 01:39, Bill Landry wrote:
Have you taken a look at fail2ban?:
http://www.fail2ban.org
It already does this using python, run in daemon mode, and can support
any application that writes to a log file.
Looking at that now. Looks neat, but I wish there was a HOWTO readme
for postfix
I think I have it all sussed out, except there doesn’t seem to be an
init script installed under FreeBSD.
Started it manually and checked the status:
$ fail2ban-client status SMTP
Status for the jail: SMTP
|- filter
| |- File list: /var/log/maillog
| |- Currently failed: 21
| `- Total failed: 56
`- action
|- Currently banned: 4
| `- IP list: 218.37.15.135 94.66.144.219 83.8.35.21
92.11.208.15
`- Total banned: 4
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