Bash script to watch a log file and react to help catch form spam

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I found your post on SO Best way to follow a log and execute a command when some text appears in the log



You are at the very bottom of the post where you made it readable and that makes sense (to some degree) I get it as a concept...



I have a PHP form processor. It's integrated into a few hundred websites and multiple forms on websites. I have done a lot of user-friendly spam catching etc for these forms but as we all know it's painful.



How can I use the post above to say count the number of times a certain IP Address filled out a form. ie. this IP has filled out Xnum forms in X seconds, it's a robot, ban this IP via iptables and record this to a different log so we can expire them based on a date-time in that log. Sort of a general idea and I'm sure there are many solutions, but I don't have one. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. - Thanks in Advance






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    I have a PHP form processor. It's integrated into a few hundred websites and multiple forms on websites. I have done a lot of user-friendly spam catching etc for these forms but as we all know it's painful.



    How can I use the post above to say count the number of times a certain IP Address filled out a form. ie. this IP has filled out Xnum forms in X seconds, it's a robot, ban this IP via iptables and record this to a different log so we can expire them based on a date-time in that log. Sort of a general idea and I'm sure there are many solutions, but I don't have one. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. - Thanks in Advance






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      I have a PHP form processor. It's integrated into a few hundred websites and multiple forms on websites. I have done a lot of user-friendly spam catching etc for these forms but as we all know it's painful.



      How can I use the post above to say count the number of times a certain IP Address filled out a form. ie. this IP has filled out Xnum forms in X seconds, it's a robot, ban this IP via iptables and record this to a different log so we can expire them based on a date-time in that log. Sort of a general idea and I'm sure there are many solutions, but I don't have one. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. - Thanks in Advance






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      I have a PHP form processor. It's integrated into a few hundred websites and multiple forms on websites. I have done a lot of user-friendly spam catching etc for these forms but as we all know it's painful.



      How can I use the post above to say count the number of times a certain IP Address filled out a form. ie. this IP has filled out Xnum forms in X seconds, it's a robot, ban this IP via iptables and record this to a different log so we can expire them based on a date-time in that log. Sort of a general idea and I'm sure there are many solutions, but I don't have one. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. - Thanks in Advance






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