Comment 6 for bug 954453

inotify backend had already merged into upstream's master branch post
0.8.6 release but there were no upstream release yet.
There is an issue reported against functionality of this backend:
https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/44
and it would be great if you could give it some testing. I have updated
'Features' page to refer to github's issues page which would have more
information

On Mon, 21 May 2012, alp wrote:

> Some background:

> RedHat ported fail2ban to use pyinotify instead of gamin which seems the
> way forward (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658849 and
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551895).

> Switching to pyinotify is apparently on the fail2ban roadmap for 0.9.0
> at http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Features so it's probably not
> worth backporting this feature at this point.

> As such the gamin patch should be a reasonable stopgap measure.

> ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #658849
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658849

> ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #551895
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551895
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