how to use rastream properly

Jason Carr jcarr at andrew.cmu.edu
Mon Aug 10 13:59:14 EDT 2009


Hello,

I'm using Rasplit Version 3.0.2.beta.11 on an amd64 architecture.

I'm trying to use rastream to capture all packets from an argus stream  
into 5 minute files.  This is my current command line:

rastream -S probe-01:561 -M time 5m -w "/data/argus/\$srcid/%Y/%m/%d/ 
%H/%Y.%m.%d.%H.%M.%S.argus" -f /scripts/compress.sh

Right now, very very small files are being produced, approximately  
around 20k or so.  It only has a few packets listed, most of the  
packets are exactly at the 5 minute mark.  If I try with rasplit:

rasplit -S probe-01:561 -M time 5m -w /data/argus/core/%Y/%m/%d/%H/%Y. 
%m.%d.%H.%M.%S.argus

This works fine and produces 300MB files for each 5 minutes like it  
should.  I would prefer to use rastream because I want the ability to  
split the stream out by source ID and the ability to run a script to  
parse the file and compress it.

What am I doing wrong?

- Jason




More information about the argus mailing list