From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 23 16:05:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EE421065670 for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 16:05:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E99068FC08 for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 16:05:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1M7tiT-0004zW-QH; Sat, 23 May 2009 17:04:57 +0100 Received: from melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (54-144.adsl.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.54.144]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id n4NG4vDv001926; Sat, 23 May 2009 17:04:57 +0100 Received: by melon.esperance-linux.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0C550FCA699; Sat, 23 May 2009 17:04:52 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 17:04:52 +0100 From: Frank Shute To: Yavuz Ma?lak Message-ID: <20090523160452.GA71919@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Yavuz Ma?lak , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <852FCD4FD0834115930F3DB05ADB7F3C@desktop2002> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <852FCD4FD0834115930F3DB05ADB7F3C@desktop2002> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Face: *}~{PHnDTzvXPe'wl_-f%!@+r5; VLhb':*DsX%wEOPg\fDrXWQJf|2\,92"DdS%63t*BHDyQ|OWo@Gfjcd72eaN!4%NE{0]p)ihQ1MyFNtWL X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p2 i386 X-Organisation: 'http://www.shute.org.uk/' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.1.7 (zetnet.co.uk [194.247.46.1]); Sat, 23 May 2009 17:04:57 +0100 (BST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to rotate a tcpdump file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 16:05:03 -0000 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 put in your conf file. There are examples to work from in the conf file already. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html