Bug 60401
| Summary: | small typo/error in tcpdump(1) | ||||||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Gleb Smirnoff <glebius> | ||||
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | Bruce M Simpson <bms> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | CC: | glebius | ||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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Hi there, I took a quick look at the tcpdump(1) man page on my FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE box and it looks like this has been fixed already. -r Read packets from file (which was created with the -w option). Standard input is used if file is ``-''. -w Write the raw packets to file rather than parsing and printing them out. They can later be printed with the -r option. Standard output is used if file is ``-''. This PR can most likely be closed. Cheers, Marc -- Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts. -- Winston Churchill On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:05:32AM +0000, Marc Silver wrote: M> I took a quick look at the tcpdump(1) man page on my FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE M> box and it looks like this has been fixed already. M> M> -r Read packets from file (which was created with the -w M> option). Standard input is used if file is ``-''. M> M> -w Write the raw packets to file rather than parsing and M> printing them out. They can later be printed with the -r M> option. Standard output is used if file is ``-''. You didn't look into right place. The typo is at the very beginning of man page, in first paragraph. However I have looked at tcpdump(1) on 5.2-RELEASE, and the typo is fixed there. M> This PR can most likely be closed. After the typo fixed in STABLE. -- Totus tuus, Glebius. GLEBIUS-RIPN GLEB-RIPE On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 01:23:40PM +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > You didn't look into right place. The typo is at the very beginning > of man page, in first paragraph. It is? I don't see it. > However I have looked at tcpdump(1) on 5.2-RELEASE, and the typo > is fixed there. In other words, the copy on my system is correct? > After the typo fixed in STABLE. Strange, I thought the man pages for the binutils were the same in -STABLE and the 5.2-RELEASE branch. My mistake. Cheers, Marc State Changed From-To: open->closed I'll take this. Fixed by last vendor branch import of tcpdump Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-doc->bms I'll take this. Fixed by last vendor branch import of tcpdump |
In the very beggining of tcpdump(1) it is said: Tcpdump prints out the headers of packets on a network interface that match the boolean expression. It can also be run with the -w flag, which causes it to save the packet data to a file for later analysis, and/or with the -b flag, which causes it to read from a saved packet file rather than to read packets from a network interface. In all cases, only packets that match expression will be processed by tcpdump. Really packet dumps can be read with -r flag. How-To-Repeat: man 1 tcpdump