i just looked at the source code and it seems that the -G option is no longer there. the tcpdump man page you read is from 2005, so it seems that they havev may removed it.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Randolph Reitz</b> <<a href="mailto:rreitz@fnal.gov">rreitz@fnal.gov</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Looking at <a href="http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump_man.html">http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump_man.html</a>, I became excited
<br>over the '-G rotate_seconds' option. Having retrieved and built the<br>latest tcpdump ...<br><br>[rreitz@babar tcpdump-3.9.8]$ /usr/local/sbin/tcpdump -G<br>tcpdump version 3.9.8<br>libpcap version 0.8.3<br>Usage: tcpdump [-aAdDeflLnNOpqRStuUvxX] [-c count] [ -C file_size ]
<br> [ -E algo:secret ] [ -F file ] [ -i interface ] [ -M<br>secret ]<br> [ -r file ] [ -s snaplen ] [ -T type ] [ -w file ]<br> [ -W filecount ] [ -y datalinktype ] [ -Z user ]
<br> [ expression ]<br><br>I don't have any -G option. Does anyone on this list know where the -<br>G option is kept?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Randy<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Bro mailing list
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