Managing very large files
Steve Bertrand
iaccounts at ibctech.ca
Fri Oct 5 05:43:59 PDT 2007
>> 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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