/etc/periodic/security/800.loginfail /etc/periodic/security/900.tcpwrap Perhaps it's just me missing the bleeding obvious, but these two scripts appear to be wired backwards, and therefore don't produce output. Also, the egrep regex in 800.loginfail doesn't work for me either. A quick edit & test... and all appears to work as intended. --- 800.loginfail-old 2019-10-19 19:05:16.208356000 +0000 +++ 800.loginfail 2020-06-18 18:24:45.772960000 +0000 @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ yesterday=`date -v-1d "+%b %e "` catmsgs() { - find ${LOG} -name 'auth.log.*' -mtime -2 | + find ${LOG} -name 'messages.*' -mtime -2 | sort -t. -r -n -k 2,2 | while read f do @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ *.bz2) bzcat -f $f;; esac done - [ -f ${LOG}/auth.log ] && cat $LOG/auth.log + [ -f ${LOG}/messages ] && cat $LOG/messages } rc=0 @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ then echo "" echo "${host} login failures:" - n=$(catmsgs | egrep -ia "^$yesterday.*: .*\b(fail(ures?|ed)?|invalid|bad|illegal|auth.*error)\b" | + n=$(catmsgs | egrep -ia "^$yesterday.*: .*\<(fail(ures?|ed)?|invalid|bad|illegal|auth.*error)\>" | tee /dev/stderr | wc -l) [ $n -gt 0 ] && rc=1 || rc=0 fi --- 900.tcpwrap-old 2019-10-19 19:05:16.224470000 +0000 +++ 900.tcpwrap 2020-06-18 18:24:07.948855000 +0000 @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ yesterday=`date -v-1d "+%b %e "` catmsgs() { - find ${LOG} -name 'messages.*' -mtime -2 | + find ${LOG} -name 'auth.log.*' -mtime -2 | sort -t. -r -n -k 2,2 | while read f do @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ *.bz2) bzcat -f $f;; esac done - [ -f ${LOG}/messages ] && cat $LOG/messages + [ -f ${LOG}/auth.log ] && cat $LOG/auth.log } rc=0