Re: how to rotate a tcpdump file

2009-05-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
Frank Shute wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 08:52:14PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: I was thinking of using the -C and -w options to tcpdump(1). From the manpage: -C Before writing a raw packet to a savefile, check whether the file is currently larger than file_size and, if so, clos

Re: how to rotate a tcpdump file

2009-05-23 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 08:52:14PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: > > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:26:37PM +0200, Morgan Wesstrm wrote: > > > > Frank Shute wrote: > > > 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. >

Re: how to rotate a tcpdump file

2009-05-23 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:26:37PM +0200, Morgan Wesstrm wrote: > > Frank Shute wrote: > > 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

Re: how to rotate a tcpdump file

2009-05-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
Morgan Wesström wrote: Frank Shute wrote: 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 ne

Re: how to rotate a tcpdump file

2009-05-23 Thread Morgan Wesström
Frank Shute wrote: > 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

Re: how to rotate a tcpdump file

2009-05-23 Thread Frank Shute
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 p