Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 08:44:00 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Managing very large files Message-ID: <47063190.3050502@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <20071003225108.GB46149@demeter.hydra> References: <4704DFF3.9040200@ibctech.ca> <20071003200013.GD45244@demeter.hydra> <47054A1D.2000701@ibctech.ca> <200710042222.25488.wundram@beenic.net> <47054C2E.8040304@ibctech.ca> <20071003225108.GB46149@demeter.hydra>
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>> The reason for the massive file size was my haste in running out of the >> office on Friday and forgetting to kill the tcpdump process before the >> weekend began. > > Sounds like you may want a Perl script to automate managing your > tcpdumps. 99% of the time I use tcpdump for less than one minute to verify the presence or lack thereof of ingress/egress traffic on a box or network. This was the one time that I actually left the shell to continuously let it capture. I will next time however wrap it with something to stop this from happening, or simply use the functions within the program itself: -c Exit after receiving count packets. Steve
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