Alternatives to security/swatch

[Dan McGrath]

Hi,

Just a heads up that I also had bug report #243609 [1] open on this that I
guess can/should be closed now.

Dan

[1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243609

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 3:57 AM Guido Falsi via freebsd-ports <
freebsd-ports at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 15/03/20 18:09, Andrea Venturoli 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 :)
>
> In the past I've used misc/logsurfer for such purpose.
>
> I'm not using it anymore since I'm now using fail2ban for the purpose.
> BTW it also does monitor log files in real time and with clever
> programming could also work as a notification system, but I agree that's
> not it's primary purpose.
>
> --
> Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>
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Cheers,
Danny

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