[Leaplist] fail2ban

[Phil Barnett]

On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 10:00 -0500, Kevin Inscoe wrote:
> Yeah agree with Phil most of these tools (think Swatch) do a Perl
> equivalent of tail -f to the logs and only ingest what has not already
> been seen. Forking in general is more expensive in cpu time and if you
> really want to fine tune in demand zero memory pages where parsing a
> log is trivial expense. But not to pick nits either way in reality
> assuming your not running a 10 way load balancer (we are) you would
> not notice the difference.

This is python, but I'm pretty sure that's another nit.


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