[rescue] A Question about Snap Servers

Steve Sandau ssandau at gwi.net
Mon Aug 2 19:51:46 CDT 2004


>>>And the audio chip in the 'classic makes it useful to keep around as a
>>>monitoring box.  
>>
>>Using the microphone to monitor things, or do you mean using sound for
>>alerts?
>>
>>I often forget my Sun's have audio, and I do have some audible alerts
>>that have saved me some trouble on occasion.
> 
> 
> snoop - v? (or is it -a) to "hear" the network activity...

-a, and as the man page says: "Listen to  packets  on  /dev/audio 
(warning: can  be noisy)." It's... ahhhh... interesting.

I've talked with a guy at work about filtering the packets and/or audio 
to actually alert al istener to particular types of events. Could at 
least be amusing. ;)

Steve



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