Re: [mu TECH] tcpdump tweak silly newbie question

From: Renato ([email protected])
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 18:06:50 CEST


On 06/04/00 at 00:42 Alfie Costa 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.
>
>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?

renato

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