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Mike_Maher
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Jun 02, 2010

Running a Rotating Tcpdump

I am trying to track down a touch and go issue. I want to be able to setup a tcpdump on my ASM that will run continously and rotate every x minutes or as the file grows to x size. Does anyone have a...
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Hamish
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Jun 02, 2010
Yes, tcpdump has an option to roll files over, and keep X number of files...

 

 

If you RTFM, you'll see that

 

 

-C = specify a maximum file size to write to

 

-W = Maximum number of files to keep... The files are used in a rotating buffer

 

-G = Can be used to specify only write to a number of files then exit (With a 0 status)

 

 

-w is used to specify the file template name.

 

 

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