Tool that watches logfiles

Hi there, since we're getting hit a lot by Proxy requests on the webservers (repeatedly from the same IP) I'm looking for a tool that looks at the webserver logs in real time and takes appropriate actions depending on the patterns it finds there. I'd like to block an IP for a while if I see a

Re: Tool that watches logfiles

Hi there, I could probably glue something with logtail or libfile-tail-perl but I'm wondering if there is already a tool that does exactly what I'm looking for? Have a look at swatch. Its written in perl and probably does (or can do) exactly what you need. Debian packages are available