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Re: Fail2ban application



On 06/24/2007 03:54 PM, David Baron wrote:
> I get sporadic and not uncommon failures to authenticate sending email using 
> exim4 smarthosting to my provider. Is there a way to get fail2ban to give me 
> immediate notification when this occurs?
> 
> Such occurances get to /var/log/auth and other logs as well.

fail2ban *should* be able to do this.  It works by reading the log, and
then generates actions based on conditions you set.

$ apt-cache show fail2ban

Read /etc/fail2ban.conf for configuring this.

Regards,
Ralph Katz



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