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Example script to run and manage a service (tcpdump) with managed logging.

Posted 10-11-2012 at 07:59 PM by konsolebox
Updated 10-12-2012 at 02:20 AM by konsolebox

Tags bash, logging, script, service, tcpdump

I made this script as a reply to a question on a thread before. The accidentally simplified complexity of it amazes me so I thought that it would be nice to post this on a blog as well. Original thread: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...cpdump-800385/

The script runs and manages a service (tcpdump). It could also automatically delete files older than C days, and reduce the size of a logfile if it's already larger than N bytes....

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