Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Cron job

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:21:01 -0800 (PST)
> I wonder - it would probably be trivial to add support to
> tethereal/ethereal/tcpdump to have SIGHUP cause the server to close and
> reopen the capture file.

It might be, although you wouldn't want that to be the *default* SIGHUP
action - heck, you might want to make it a SIGUSR1 action, instead
(anything worthy of the name "modern UNIX" should have SIGUSR1).