docs/60401: small typo/error in tcpdump(1)

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at cell.sick.ru
Fri Dec 19 14:40:52 UTC 2003


>Number:         60401
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       small typo/error in tcpdump(1)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Dec 19 06:40:21 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gleb Smirnoff
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Best Telecom ISP
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD fade.bestcom.ru 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #2: Fri Aug 15 12:24:22 MSD 2003 root at fade.bestcom.ru:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FADE i386

>Description:
	In the very beggining of tcpdump(1) it is said:

       Tcpdump  prints  out the headers of packets on a network interface that
       match the boolean expression.  It can also be run  with  the  -w  flag,
       which  causes  it to save the packet data to a file for later analysis,
       and/or with the -b flag, which causes it to read from  a  saved  packet
       file  rather  than  to  read  packets from a network interface.  In all
       cases, only packets that match expression will be processed by tcpdump.

	Really packet dumps can be read with -r flag. 

>How-To-Repeat:
	man 1 tcpdump
>Fix:

--- tcpdump.1.orig	Fri Dec 19 17:30:32 2003
+++ tcpdump.1	Fri Dec 19 17:30:51 2003
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
 .B \-w
 flag, which causes it to save the packet data to a file for later
 analysis, and/or with the
-.B \-b
+.B \-r
 flag, which causes it to read from a saved packet file rather than to
 read packets from a network interface.  In all cases, only packets that
 match
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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