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

[Jef P. <je...@ma...>]

I never saw any response to this - just wanted to make sure it
didn't slip through the cracks, since it looks like a serious bug
that affects everyone doing log-sucking, not just me. Editing out
my TL;DR rambling, the gist is that there's a missing call to stat().

>Oh, I think I see the problem. sshguard_logsuck.c lines
>116-117, activate_source() is getting called with an uninitialized
>fileinfo. Got to add a stat() to fill it in.
>
>So I guess this is happening to everyone but no one else noticed because
>their log files get rotated on a sane schedule.