Undocumented options in ra

Carter Bullard carter at qosient.com
Tue Apr 19 08:17:48 EDT 2011


The option is "-L -1" and that eliminates the column label as an output.  Does look a bit weird.

Carter

On Apr 19, 2011, at 8:06 AM, elof2 at sentor.se wrote:

> 
> I noticed that there are no man-page for 'rahosts', and then discovered that this was a simple perl-script.
> 
> In this script I see that it will run :
> ra -L -1 -nn -s saddr:32 daddr:32 proto -c , -r argus.log
> 
> 
> Question:
> What does the -L and -1 options to ra do? They aren't mentioned in the ra
> manual.
> 
> 
> 
> PS:
> Perhaps you should create a man-page for rahosts?
> ...and perhaps handle the special cases when the argument is '-?' or '-h' locally in the perl script and show a usage-message instead of forwarding the argument to ra, which will print *its* usage instructions.
> Example: Run 'rahosts -?' and you won't see the help for 'rahosts' but for 'ra'.
> 
> /Elof
> 



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