On 07/12/2015 02:18 PM, E.B. wrote:
>> Besides having another daemon (rsyslog) in middle, do you know
>> the scheme used for the systemd backend? Does it also poll
>> or use some type of notify method?
> Still curious to know about that. BUT:
>
> some things I monitor do not log via journald/ssytemd like
> nginx log files and fail2ban itself! (for recidive)
>
> Given that, even if I use systemd backend for most things
> it has to use other method to monitor log files so I
> wonder if then there is any advantage to use systemd
> when i could just use inotify (or polling) for everything
> (maybe depends on understanding answer to question at the
> top)
>

6 of 1, half a dozen of another.  You choose.  I believe Lee mentioned
that even if you specify a backend of systemd, you can still specify a
logfile for one or more of the jails, so you can do both, or keep it
simple and just use the log files.

Natu


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