I'm afraid you are incorrect, fail2ban reads the log once every second.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Terry Brummell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:terry@brummell.net">terry@brummell.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial">Your delay is due to the amount of time the F2B script takes to read the log file, and due to how often it is called. I do not believe it is a realtime event. Say, every minute it's called to read the log and act. I'm not sure of the exact numbers, but you get the idea....</font></div>
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