[flow-tools] problems with expire

[Michael Redinger]

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Mark Fullmer wrote:

> Flow-capture needs to "own" its work directory.  Running flow-expire
> in the same dir will cause the type of problem you ran into.
> 
> I'm not aware of any problems with flow-capture expiring files.
> 
> What does du -s -k /var/local/netflow/flow-capture show?

Currenty it's 10794608 (so approx. 10G). (One flow file is about 20 MB 
here).

Michael

> On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 07:05:16PM +0100, Michael Redinger wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > is there a bug in flow-capture that prevents it from expiring old flow 
> > files? This doesn't work for me.
> > 
> > I also tried to run flow-expire directly, but that's even worse: it 
> > deletes the temporary flow file (tmp-...). This even kills flow-capture then.
> > 
> > Here's how I run the two programs:
> > 
> > /usr/local/bin/flow-capture -S 5 -V 5 -E 8G -N 0 -n 95 -p \
> > 	/var/run/flow-capture.pid -w /var/local/netflow/flow-capture/ \
> > 	-R /usr/local/sbin/capture-post 127.0.0.1/127.0.0.1/9801
> > 
> > /usr/local/bin/flow-expire -E 8G -w /var/local/netflow/flow-capture/
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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