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RiverFish
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Unfortunately I've never created a cron job, could you break it down for me please? Let's say I wanted the tcpdump job to kick off at 10:30 PM and run until 3:00 AM.
nitass
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Nov 23, 2014>Unfortunately I've never created a cron job
Schedule Tasks on Linux Using Crontab
http://kvz.io/blog/2007/07/29/schedule-tasks-on-linux-using-crontab/
it is just tcpdump and killall commands. you are aware that W option will overwrite old file, aren't you?
e.g.
[root@ve11a:Active:In Sync] config crontab -l
cron tab for root
1-59/10 * * * * /usr/bin/diskmonitor
MAILTO=""
51 * * * * /usr/bin/copy_rrd save
27 21 * * * /usr/sbin/tcpdump -nni 0.0:nnn -s0 -C 1 -W 10 -w /var/tmp/test
30 21 * * * killall tcpdump
[root@ve11a:Active:In Sync] config ls -l /shared/tmp/|grep test
-rw-r--r-- 1 pcap pcap 1000011 Nov 23 21:29 test0
-rw-r--r-- 1 pcap pcap 1000028 Nov 23 21:29 test1
-rw-r--r-- 1 pcap pcap 1000171 Nov 23 21:29 test2
-rw-r--r-- 1 pcap pcap 710416 Nov 23 21:30 test3
-rw-r--r-- 1 pcap pcap 1000020 Nov 23 21:29 test4
-rw-r--r-- 1 pcap pcap 1000147 Nov 23 21:29 test5
-rw-r--r-- 1 pcap pcap 1000119 Nov 23 21:29 test6
-rw-r--r-- 1 pcap pcap 1000237 Nov 23 21:29 test7
-rw-r--r-- 1 pcap pcap 1000086 Nov 23 21:29 test8
-rw-r--r-- 1 pcap pcap 1000256 Nov 23 21:29 test9