I'm converting from flow-tools to nfdump and I noticed that one issue that the nfdump tools, in particular nfcapd, do not seem to have any time zone support.
As discussed on this list back in June 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00240.html if you are using time-stamped filenames, nfcapd will overwrite its files when the local time "falls back" due to a time zone change. The flow-tools flow-capture program doesn't have this problem because it appends the timezone to the filename. I also noticed that nfdump, when it prints a time, does not show the timezone. This is a problem for me since I need to port my flow-tools output parsing scripts and they were looking for the timezone. How difficult would it be to fix these problems? As pointed out last June, there's no good way to use timestamped filenames and avoid file overwriting unless you keep your computer's time zone in GMT or turn of daylight time, which causes other problems. Thanks, -- Ed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Nfdump-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfdump-discuss
