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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sgigate.sgi.com!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!newscaster-1.mcast.net!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!unixhub!news.Stanford.EDU!raptor2.Stanford.EDU!sparkles From: Robert James Williamson <sparkles@leland.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: tcpdump broken? Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:56:46 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Lines: 21 Sender: sparkles@raptor2.Stanford.EDU Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.93.960617155155.14360A-100000@raptor2.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: raptor2.stanford.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Has anyone else observed the fact that on an irregular basis, tcpdump fails to terminate according to the operation guidelines you give it? Specifically, invoking tcpdump with the termination-on-packet-count feature *usually* works, but if you run the program about 30 times, one of those times, it will outright fail to terminate at all, eventually filling up your entire partition with dump data. Even then it won't die! I am wondering if I will need to patch this up myself, or if there are already pre-existing patches for this program. Any help warmly received! If possible, please send replies to sparkles@leland.stanford.edu. Thanks! Rob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robert James Williamson #include <ASCI_Pic.h> sparkles@leland.stanford.edu #include <Witty_Phrase.h> HTTP://www-leland.stanford.edu/~sparkles/ #include <Soft_Sell.h> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~