On 10/9/2020 6:56 AM, J. Smith wrote:
>
> Is there a way to limit the log listings in the email notifications to
> the last “n” number of entries in the log?  The
> “sendmail-whois-lines.conf” file uses “grep –m” to limit the number of
> entries but it does so starting from the beginning of the log,  As a
> result  you may receive lines from a past brute force attack and not
> the current lines that created the present ban.   
>

Can you use tail? i.e. grep -m <regex> | tail -n <# of returns>

-- 
Dan Egli
On my Test server

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