Heya!
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 11:42 AM, TOoSmOotH <[email protected]> wrote: > Having an issue getting netsniff-ng to run in daemon mode. > > When I run this everything runs great: > > netsniff-ng -i eth1 -o /nsm/pcap/ -s --prefix snort.log. --verbose > --ring-size 50MiB --interval 50MiB > > When I run it this way to drop it into daemon mode I get this: > > netsniff-ng -i eth1 -o /nsm/pcap/ -s --prefix snort.log. --verbose > --ring-size 50MiB --interval 50MiB -D -P /var/run/netsniff-ng.pid -L > /var/log/netsniff-ng.log -S /tmp/netsniff-ng.uds > > it looks like you might have some arguments used incorrectly... -D dumps pcap types instead of putting it in daemon mode (which doesn't exist) you have: -P /var/run/netsniff-ng.pid - but -P is meant to specify the prefix: -P|--prefix <name> Prefix for pcaps stored in directory -L argument does not exist -S specify's ring size, so should be a size, not a file. (you already use --ring-size) <snip> > Then it just exits. Any ideas? Am I missing something simple here? > > Thanks > > Mike > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "netsniff-ng" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "netsniff-ng" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
