[netflow-tools] Latest format update diff
Damien Miller
djm at mindrot.org
Thu Aug 25 08:15:34 EST 2005
Damien Miller wrote:
> oh, one more thing: please rotate your existing flowd logfile out of the
> way before running an snapshot or this patch.
>
> There are no checks (yet) against appending new-format records to an
> old-format logfile so you will end up with a messed up log. If you make
> this mistake, it is possible to recover using the Unix hexdump(1) and
> split(1) utilities (and some patience), but it is best not to make the
> mistake in the first place :)
BTW these checks were implemented two days ago.
-d
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