ok. after further consultations on irc i found out that when piping
tcpdump output, output will only go in chunks of 4 kbs of data. so when i
did 'tcpdump -i ppp0 | tee /tcpdump.log' on numerous retries i didn't get
input in /tcpdump.log straightaway like a 'tcpdump -i ppp0' (without
piping) would have, hence concluded that tee didn't work. my conclusion
was also based on 'tcpdump -i ppp0 > /tcpdump.log' which also redirects
tcpdump output to a file immediately.
anyway, i was wondering whether 'tee' always logs in chunks of 4 kbs ?
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