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kjell_at_pintday.org
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 11:04:15 CDT

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    > > This is in my root crontab.
    > > 0 */6 * * * /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n -e -tttv -r /var/log/pflog | /usr/local/sbin/pf.pl

    ow. Do you folks REALLY trust tcpdump enough to run it as root in a
    cronjob?

    I would be very tempted to run it as a locked-down regular user
    instead, since it doesn't actually have to read data from the wire.

    -kj