Re: [Sshguard-maintainers] syslog.conf | (pipe) on Redhat Linux

[Mij <mi...@bi...>]

On 07/ott/07, at 17:25, Forrest Aldrich wrote:

> It appears we cannot use the same format in Redhat's syslog.conf as I
> can in  FreeBSD, ie: the | to a command directive.  The manpage
> specifies a "named pipe" for which mkfifo must be used to create  
> first.
>
> I read through the manpage and cannot see where else we can pipe the
> output of the logged actions to the stock syslog daemon.  Of  
> course, the
> solution will be to try a third party application like rsyslogd or
> syslog-ng.  However, I wanted to be sure my facts were correct before
> doing so.

thanks for your interest.

In systems with older syslogds the FIFO is the best solution. It is  
clean and
unintrusive. You make syslogd write to the FIFO, and call sshguard like
"sshguard options < FIFO"

are you preparing a rpm package? Did you see
http://sshguard.sourceforge.net/packages/ ?