[Bug 221233] security/sshguard: version 2.0 acts like a fork bomb with syslogd pipes

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221233

--- Comment #2 from Harlan Stenn <stenn at nwtime.org> ---
I added the PID_FILE option, and while it's not clear to me if/how that used,
it helps a little.

I'm now seeing the following, with a gap of a few hours' time between the runs:

root at tiki:/homes/harlan # ps -ax | grep tail
4122  -  S       0:02.26 tail -F -n 0 /var/log/auth.log /var/log/maillog
6500  -  S       0:02.19 tail -F -n 0 /var/log/auth.log /var/log/maillog
6953  -  S       0:01.69 tail -F -n 0 /var/log/auth.log /var/log/maillog
7124  -  S       0:01.46 tail -F -n 0 /var/log/auth.log /var/log/maillog
7815  -  S       0:00.59 tail -F -n 0 /var/log/auth.log /var/log/maillog
8260  0  S+      0:00.00 grep tail
root at tiki:/homes/harlan # ps -ax | grep tail
4122  -  S       0:03.53 tail -F -n 0 /var/log/auth.log /var/log/maillog
6500  -  S       0:03.47 tail -F -n 0 /var/log/auth.log /var/log/maillog
6953  -  S       0:02.97 tail -F -n 0 /var/log/auth.log /var/log/maillog
7124  -  S       0:02.73 tail -F -n 0 /var/log/auth.log /var/log/maillog
7815  -  S       0:01.86 tail -F -n 0 /var/log/auth.log /var/log/maillog
8265  -  S       0:01.26 tail -F -n 0 /var/log/auth.log /var/log/maillog
8598  -  S       0:00.81 tail -F -n 0 /var/log/auth.log /var/log/maillog
8746  -  S       0:00.63 tail -F -n 0 /var/log/auth.log /var/log/maillog
9303  0  S+      0:00.00 grep tail

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