Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:46:20 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Shell script question Message-ID: <A1225E310DA8DA9B86364FA0@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
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I'm working on a shell script to use p0f to identify "unauthorized" hosts on our network. In the script I use an echo command to see what the output of the command is. This is what it looks like: /usr/local/bin/p0f -i xl0 -N -l -o /root/capture.1123177152.log 'src net 10.0.0.0/8 or src net 129.110.0.0/16' If I paste the output of the echo command to the cli and hit enter, p0f runs and writes to the log. Yet when I actually try to run that same command from the script, p0f complains: pcap_compile: illegal token: ' See man tcpdump or p0f README for help on bpf filter expressions. Here's the script. It's very simple right now, but there's a lot more work to be done. I first have to figure out this problem, though: #!/bin/sh P0F=/usr/local/bin/p0f EPOCH_DATE=`date -j -f "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y" "\`date\`" "+%s"` LOG=/root/capture.${EPOCH_DATE}.log NIC="-i xl0" ARGS="-N -l -o ${LOG}" DAEMON="-d" FILTER="'src net 10.0.0.0/8 or src net 129.110.0.0/16'" echo "${P0F} ${NIC} ${ARGS} ${DAEMON} ${FILTER}" ${P0F} ${NIC} ${ARGS} ${FILTER} Why is p0f complaining about the bpf filter? I've tried escaping the single quotes, but that generates a different error. I don't understand why the identical command works on the cli, but not in the script. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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