On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Brian Candler <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a "screen" package for pfsense? Can I just take an off-the-shelf > FreeBSD package? > > This would be really useful, e.g. if I need to leave a tcpdump running for > a few hours to capture traffic to/from a particular host. > > Regards, > > Brian. > You should be able to install the of-the-shelf FreeBSD screen port. (pkg_add -r screen) However, if you are writing the output to a file and not directly to the screen, you can probably just use nohup (which my firewall machine seems to already have) to keep the process running. (Something like this: "nohup tcpdump <tcpdump options> &") Moshe -- Moshe Katz -- [email protected] -- +1(301)867-3732
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