[Bro-Dev] No scripts

[Seth Hall]

On Aug 16, 2011, at 1:16 AM, Robin Sommer wrote:

> When one starts Bro with no scripts at all (e.g., "bro -i ix1"), it
> doesn't do anything because it will try to read from stdin. Seems we
> should change that now so that it will just start processing? 


Oh, I didn't realize this was behaving differently when sniffing a live interface.  It already does this when reading a tracefile.  It seems reasonable to me to make this the global behavior.

What was the reason for being able to provide Bro scripts on stdin?  Does anyone use this functionality?

  .Seth

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