From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 2 12:34:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01398 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:34:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netra.graphnet.com (netra.graphnet.com [192.206.112.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01391 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:34:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roman@atlas-design.net) Received: from atlas-design.net (roman.graphnet.com [192.206.112.93]) by netra.graphnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id PAA19619; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 15:33:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3665A44D.C8DDB6A@atlas-design.net> Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 15:34:21 -0500 From: Roman Katsnelson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Smithurst CC: "q's" Subject: Re: sniffer References: <36657AD5.1F79504B@atlas-design.net> <19981202200327.C366@scientia.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > and being that this is a custom kernel on a live and important web ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > You think the GENERIC kernel, with lots of unneeded bloat, is better ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ No, I was saying that we already have a custom kernel. And it was kind of a pain to compile, and it finally works and I'd just rather not touch it. But I guess I *could* keep it around anyway. I don't know. But do I understand correctly, tcpdump doesn't need any additions to the kernel? It just needs to be setuid root? Thanks, Roman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message