Re: [SSHGuard-users] sshguard restart loop when using syslogd

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On Tue, 10 May 2016 10:04:57 -0400
Peter Beckman <be...@an...> wrote:

> Why not add your IP(s) to the whitelist? Did you fail to login
> successfully many times in the past few years?
> 
> Why not rotate your auth.log?
> 
> Why not run newsyslog manually once to rotate initially?
> 
> To me this isn't a bug, more of a "it doesn't work the way I want"
> for some reasons that seem to be fairly easy to rememdy.
> 
> Beckman
> 

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Checking my /var/log, it appears that once you put a file into
newsyslog, it will chop it up into compressed files with
one "operating" file at the appropriate rotation time. That is, my
maillog, which I recently added to newsyslog, was chopped into 6 files
when the rotation time came around.