From: Renato ([email protected])
Date: Mon Apr 10 2000 - 22:59:51 CEST
On 06/04/00 at 19:18 Alfie Costa wrote:
>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.
>
As you usually show very creative solutions, I was wondering if that circular loop could do something I miss. A mu command, I thought.
Renato
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