Re: [mu TECH] tcpdump tweak silly newbie question

From: Alfie Costa ([email protected])
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 01:18:45 CEST


On 6 Apr 00, at 13:06, Renato <[email protected]> wrote:

> >Fourth tweak:
> >
> >In /usr/bin/tcpdump
> >
> >The only line of code in the file is:
> >
> > exec trafshow $@
> >
> >Deleting this file and replacing it with a:
> >
> >"ln -s /usr/bin/trafshow /usr/bin/trafshow"
> >
> >...would be simpler -- unless there are plans to add more code to
> >this script.
>
> My newbie mind didn't follow your reasoning, Alfie.
> Is this a symlink pointing to a program that has the same name and is in the
> same place? How does it work?

Well, it can't actually. It's only a late-night typo. What I meant to write
was...

"ln -s /usr/bin/trafshow /usr/bin/tcpdump"

Sorry about that, hope the above line is much more reasonable.

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