Hello, Is there a plan to add to tcpdump an environment variable like "TCPDUMP" to add options to the command line ?
Best Regards, Francois-Xavier Le Bail --- On Sun, 3/22/09, Francois-Xavier Le Bail <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Francois-Xavier Le Bail <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] Should the default snapshot length in tcpdump > be 65535? > To: "Eloy Paris" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Cc: "Arien Vijn" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 10:24 AM > 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. - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
