On Sun, 10 Apr 2022 17:00:25 -0400
Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote:
> On 4/10/22 9:39 AM, Yogendra Kumar Chaudhary wrote:
> > I am running the following command in the OpenBSD 6.2.

You should really upgrade. That version no longer gets security patches
for several years.

> So, I'm thinking you probably want a 'b' and a SIGHUP sent to tcpdump.
> You can validate my second point by disabling the compression, I
> suspect you will see your .0 file continue to grow in size, until it
> becomes .1, etc.

What Nick suspects is likely true, but tcpdump will just quit on
SIGHUP. You could restart the capture instead. Capturing network traffic
for days might use a lot of disk space though.

Kind regards,

Thomas

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