Alternatives to security/swatch

[Michael Gmelin]

> On 15. Mar 2020, at 18:10, Andrea Venturoli <ml at netfence.it> wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I'm using security/swatch to look *in real time* for specific strings in my logs, but now it's deprecated because it's unfetchable.
> 
> Can someone suggest an alternative?
> 
> N.B. I'm not looking for something that will parse logs at specified times (e.g. run from cron); I already have logcheck.
> I'm using swatch, in addition to that, to look for things that require immediate attention, by piping syslogd into it.
> 
> Bonus for not requiring too many dependencies :)

swatch is still available as a new version on sourceforge (3.2.4). So someone (maybe the maintainer, put him on Cc), could update/unbreak the port.

Maybe I’ll take a look myself later, would you be willing to test?

-m


> 
> bye & Thanks
>    av.
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-ports at freebsd.org mailing list
> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"