[Iptablelog-users] feed_db.pl Running In Background

[Mike B. <mby...@co...>]

Hello.

Last week I came across iptables logs and decided to give it a try. 
Everything has been great except for the feed_db.pl script.

Basically when I run it with --background, nothing happens.   If I run
it without any args, it works just fine.  I did notice though that it
spawned two instances of tail:

root     27826  0.0  0.2   2600  1212 pts/0    S    14:02   0:00 sh -c
tail --follow=name --retry /var/log/iptables 2>/dev/null
root     27827  0.0  0.1   1972   648 pts/0    S    14:02   0:00 tail
--follow=name --retry /var/log/iptables


When I try to run the top one, no output is ever given.  Anyone have any
ideas or suggestions on what I can do to help debug the script or find a
way for it to work?

Also, out of curiousity, why was the decision made to use the tail
binary as opposed to File::Tail?

Thanks,
Mike