[Nottingham] fail2ban + gamin, or tail -f | grep?...

[Martin]

Folks,

Just looking up fail2ban: Looks good.

Checking gamin as used by fail2ban: Lockups bugs reported...

(gamin is used as an interface to inotify to notify fail2ban when a
monitored log file changes.)

There's also a few comments about gamin using lots of CPU.


So:

How buggy (or not) is gamin and why is inotify not used directly?


Some of the bugs for gamin are rather old with no activity...

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=496154

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678813

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323316

Or am I overly negatively selectively searching?...



Or is just as good a method to use:

tail -f /var/log/messages | egrep 'whatever' | bash-script


Cheers,
Martin


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