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how do I use swatch to monitore a log file in real time

Asked by xserverx in Miscellaneous Security, Unix Systems Programming, Linux Administration

Tags: swatch, error log, real time, watchlog

Hello
some times I have somebody execute some harm requests on my site for example I have this entry "/home/user/public_html/sitemap.xml" match in  error_log look like  :

[Tue Nov 03 01:34:45 2009] [error] [client 82.251.118.118] File does not exist: /home/user/public_html/sitemap.xml



I woukd like swatch or whatever  program execute this command line to block the ip  :

apf -d  82.251.118.118

all must be done in REAL TIME when in same time that I have that match in error_log

is that be done by swatch or what program can do that how to do that ?



thank you




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