Debian Bug report logs - #545985
pcaputils: IWBN to have an option to run a program after file rotation in pcapdump

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@generic-nic.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: pcaputils: IWBN to have an option to run a program after file rotation in pcapdump

Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:44:57 +0200

Package: pcaputils
Version: 0.8-1
Severity: wishlist


It would be nice to have an option of pcapdump to run a given program
after the file rotation, with the name of the file being passed as a
parameter to the program.

I suggest to name the option -k (to kick in, I presume), after the
similar option of dnscap. I quote dnscap's man page:

     -k cmd      After each dump file specified by -w is closed, this command
                 will be executed in a nonblocking subprocess with the file
                 name as its one argument.  It's expected that this command
                 will be a shell script that submits the finished file to a
                 batch processing analytics system.  Note that without -k, the
                 program will exit at the first output closure due to -c or
                 -t.

Security note: pcapdump typically runs as root. Either we need another
option, to switch to another user before running the program, or we
simply decide that root, being a Big Boy, checks the program before
running pcapdump -k.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pcaputils depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libjudydebian1                1.0.5-1    C library for creating and accessi
ii  libpcap0.8                    1.0.0-2    system interface for user-level pa

pcaputils recommends no packages.

pcaputils suggests no packages.

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Message #10 received at 545985@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>

To: 545985@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Possible implementation

Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:57:11 +0200

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