A daemon mode oddity?

Peter Van Epp vanepp at sfu.ca
Mon Feb 5 16:32:49 EST 2001


	I started argus_bpf (2.0.0Y) in daemon mode (as opposed to with a &)
but with no config file and it seems to have defaulted oddly (but perhaps
as designed):

	pwd is /data:

test4# argus_bpf -dJRw argus.log
argus_bpf[7381]: started

test4# ls -l
total 7426
-rw-r--r--  1 vanepp  wheel      628 Feb  1 08:22 .cshrc
-rw-------  1 vanepp  wheel      348 Feb  2 13:48 .history
-rw-r--r--  1 vanepp  wheel      299 Feb  1 08:22 .login
-rw-r--r--  1 vanepp  wheel      160 Feb  1 08:22 .login_conf
-rw-------  1 vanepp  wheel      371 Feb  1 08:22 .mail_aliases
-rw-r--r--  1 vanepp  wheel      331 Feb  1 08:22 .mailrc
-rw-r--r--  1 vanepp  wheel      722 Feb  1 08:22 .profile
-rw-------  1 vanepp  wheel      276 Feb  1 08:22 .rhosts
-rw-r--r--  1 vanepp  wheel      852 Feb  1 08:22 .shrc
-rw-r--r--  1 root    wheel  6187884 Feb  2 11:21 argus.log.2
-rw-r--r--  1 root    wheel    62892 Feb  1 21:49 argus.log.core.1
-rw-------  1 root    wheel  1314816 Feb  1 21:49 argus_bpf.core.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root    wheel     2324 Feb  2 11:19 ps.console.hang

	But no argus.log output file from the -w above. A find indicates that
it is writing in to /argus.log (because there is no config file perhaps?) 
rather than the expected (at least by me :-) ./ which in this case would be
/data. Because / isn't all that large that is potentially a problem. Is this
what is supposed to be happening?

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support 
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada



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