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Date:      Sat, 23 May 2009 17:04:52 +0100
From:      Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>
To:        Yavuz Ma?lak <yavuz.maslak@netiletisim.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to rotate a tcpdump file
Message-ID:  <20090523160452.GA71919@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <852FCD4FD0834115930F3DB05ADB7F3C@desktop2002>
References:  <852FCD4FD0834115930F3DB05ADB7F3C@desktop2002>

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On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 02:57:08PM +0300, Yavuz Ma?lak wrote:
>
> I wish tcpdump to rotate tcpdump file whose size reaches 10Mbyte.
> 
> Which command should I use ?
> 

You should be able to set up newsyslog(8) to rotate the dumps.

You want to have a look at newsyslog.conf(5) to craft a line to put in
your conf file. There are examples to work from in the conf file
already.

Regards,

-- 

 Frank 


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