Package: pcaputils
Version: 0.8-1
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice to have an option of pcapdump to run a given program
after the file rotation, with the name of the file being passed as a
parameter to the program.
I suggest to name the option -k (to kick in, I presume), after the
similar option of dnscap. I quote dnscap's man page:
-k cmd After each dump file specified by -w is closed, this command
will be executed in a nonblocking subprocess with the file
name as its one argument. It's expected that this command
will be a shell script that submits the finished file to a
batch processing analytics system. Note that without -k, the
program will exit at the first output closure due to -c or
-t.
Security note: pcapdump typically runs as root. Either we need another
option, to switch to another user before running the program, or we
simply decide that root, being a Big Boy, checks the program before
running pcapdump -k.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages pcaputils depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libjudydebian1 1.0.5-1 C library for creating and accessi
ii libpcap0.8 1.0.0-2 system interface for user-level pa
pcaputils recommends no packages.
pcaputils suggests no packages.
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