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Thanks for your help,

I can in today, I didnt come into the office on tuesday, I found that the changes that I made to the cron and the script on monday have made it work,
YAY!

Thank you so...

ls -l /root/voippackets.sh
OutPut:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 238 Apr 15 16:15 /root/voippackets.sh


Sorry i miss typed on the earlier post

I ran the script as
bash...

No luck again. The cron did not start at the time it was set too.



No it did not create /root/VoIPpackets

I know that the script didnt run because it should have generated a number a files....

I setup the new cron on friday and didnt do any testing on it yet. I will know more on Monday. Thanks for your help. I will let you know if it works for me or not :D

Thanks for your reply,

i think im just a little confused.

I will add in

. /etc/profile

What does this line do?

Thanks for the advice and help.

I have set the script
voippackets.sh ( i just renamed the file as such)
I double checked the permissions and they are set as an executable.

I rewrote the code...

OK I have been working on this simple action for a while and I cannot get it to work.
First off im new to the linux command line world. I feel like I am missing something simple.

What I am...

Thank you so much vgersh99
I think that was what my trouble was :)

I have the file name specified with -w command
-w'flowroute-%H%M.pcap

the "%H%M" is to capture the current time and add that to the file being created(this is my time stamp for the file)

With...

Im setting up crontab to run a command at 0800
my current crontab entry is:


0 8 * * 1,2,3,4,5 tcpdump -s2000 -w'flowroute-%H%M.pcap' -G900 -W34


This should start the script at 800am monday...

Thanks for all the feed back. I will need to look into using cron, not some thing i have used before but I understand the idea. I was thinking that i could use that for timing, thank you for the...

I'm new to the Unix/Linux world. I have taken classes and played with a few simple scripts but never had a real world application. Here is my problem.

What I need to do is every 15min between 8am...