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

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