Hello, Why not an environment variable like TCPDUMP="-s 68" to add options to the command line ?
Best Regards, Francois-Xavier Le Bail --- On Tue, 3/10/09, Arien Vijn <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Arien Vijn <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump > be 65535? > To: "Eloy Paris" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Arien Vijn" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 2:58 AM > On 10 Mar. 2009, at 2:01 AM, Eloy Paris wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:52:50PM +0100, Arien Vijn > wrote: > > > >> Therefore it would be a good idea to make this an > option during compile > >> time. > > > > Hmmm. Wouldn't this be a bit overkill? And even if > we went down this > > path, I don't think that recompiling with the > option to revert to > > the shorter snapshot length by default will be that > much easier for > > administrators than editing legacy scripts to add > "-s 68" to tcpdump > > invokations. > > I meant it the other way around :) I suggested to leave the > defaults to what they are. From experience I know that > changing defaults are often not appreciated by the many > administrators with lots of things on their minds. > > For those who don't like to type "-s 0" it > would be nice to have the option to get rid of that under > compile time. > > Things should not be static for ever though. IMO the > default can be changed in the next major release (5), not in > any 4.x.x release. > > Cheers, Arien > > > - > This is the tcpdump-workers list. > Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe. - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
