Bug 4326

Summary: arp2ethers script in arpwatch package has a typo
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Pekka Savola <pekkas>
Component: tcpdumpAssignee: Harald Hoyer <harald>
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Description Pekka Savola 1999-08-03 04:38:44 UTC 
There wasn't arpwatch package in the list, so I put it
to tcpdump..

RH6.0 arpwatch package's arp2ethers script seems to be
broken; it just prints the usage of awk here.  This seemed
to fix it:

--- arp2ethers  Mon Mar 22 07:15:36 1999
+++ arp2ethers_ Tue Aug  3 07:29:01 1999
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 #

 sort +2rn arp.dat | \
-    awk -e 'NF == 4 { print }' | \
+    awk 'NF == 4 { print }' | \
     awk -f p.awk | \
     egrep -v '\.[0-9][0-9]*$' | \
     sed -e 's/ .*      /       /' | \
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-08-04 13:23:59 UTC 
Fixed in tcpdump-3.4-11. Thanks for the patch.