Re: [Fail2ban-users] RFE: Exporting ban specific data

[Patrick B. K. <p...@st...>]

* Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <bu...@bu...>:
> On 10/03/2011 07:58 AM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> > How about an action that stores timestamp, IP, LOG and other data into a SQL
> > (sqlite, postgres) database.
> > 
> > A cron job could read from the database and create the reports we want.
> > 
> > This way fail2ban would provide a more generic interface to share ban data.
> 
> I was thinking XML, sqlite as well. 

XML, yikes! Besides XML is bound to a system. SQL can be reached over a
network if you use a RDBMS like Postgres or MariaDB.

> Also, we could add some nice example
> reporting scripts for cron that could read them.

Yep, this sounds like a solution others can build upon.

p@rick


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