Netwatch?

[Chris Maness]

Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Thu, July 6, 2006 9:35 am, Chris Maness wrote:
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>> Freddie Cash wrote:
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>>> On Wed, July 5, 2006 2:08 pm, Chris Maness wrote:
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>>>> Used to have this cool little tool on my slackware box to monitor
>>>>  network traffic.  Just curious as to why it has not been ported
>>>> (are there any issues with it?)
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>>>> http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/netwatch.html
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>>>> p.s.  What would be a good substitute for now?
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>>> Install trafshow instead.
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>> This program seems to stay in memory after the shell closes and eats
>> up processor time.  Top showed this thing at 98%.  Does this app. have
>> a bug?
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> I've never had a problem with it, but I've never let it run for more
> than 5 minutes at a time while tracking down a problem station.  And
> I've always quit it manually using CTRL+C or Q.
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> Doing a quick test on a 6.0-p4 system, I can reproduce this issue,
> though:
>   in terminal 1:
>     ssh to remote system
>     su - to root
>     start trafshow
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>   in terminal 2:
>     ssh to remote system
>     su - to root
>     kill -9 the first instance of csh
>     check ps to make sure it's dead but trafshow is still alive
>     check top and see 0% idle, ~66% system and ~33% user, with
> trafshow at the top of the process list
>     kill trafshow in top, get 99% idle
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> Not sure if this is a bug in csh, trafshow, both, or something else.
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> Freddie Cash
> fcash at ocis.net
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I ran it in bash.