Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Taking output from tethereal to a SQL database

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:44:28 -0800
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 03:38:04PM -0800, Christopher Lyon wrote:
> I was wondering if there was another way to do this. I don't want to
> write a script to start tcpdump, then stop it, read the file that was
> just created, output that to DBI and then restart the process all over
> again.

Could you have the program/script that reads the file instead read from
its standard input, and then pipe the output of Tethereal to that
program/script?