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Re: Log file IDS package?



On Wednesday, 2005-01-12 at 16:57:41 +1100, Andrew Pollock wrote:

> Is there software in Debian that will do something along the lines of a tail
> -f of a given logfile, looking for supplied regexs and do custom actions on
> matches?

I'm using swatch. But swatch can only limit the number of actions
performed on a match, not perform an action if a count is exceeded. That
would need to be done in the script called when a match is found.

HTH,
Lupe Christoph
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