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It's not really about trust, it's about the hassle of adding and maintaining things (including keeping up with their changelogs and security issues). As for lo
by timf 5y ago
It's not really about trust, it's about the hassle of adding and maintaining things (including keeping up with their changelogs and security issues).
As for log clutter, my approach comprehensively stops the logs files from being cluttered with failed attempts; that's one of the main reasons I do it.
- walrus01 5y agoThat is a good point but I should also add that fail2ban as a daemon and its default configuration to watch log files for other popular daemons (example: a postfix smtp traffic log) has changed very, very little in the past 5-6 years. It's not very much of a concern in terms of keeping track of configuration changes in major system upgrades.