[netflow-tools] python FlowLog.start_time

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Wed Oct 5 07:58:16 EST 2005


On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:16:15 +0200
Gijs Molenaar <gijs at looze.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to port my python software to the new flowd SNAP-20051003.
> 
> In the 0.8.5 release, the python module had a class log, now renamed to 
> FlowLog. The log class had a start_time function, that would give me the 
> start time (suprise) when the flowfile was created.
> 
> Is it possible to get this function back, or should the starttime be 
> determined in an other way?

I removed this because it is almost redundant: the start time is roughly
equal to the recv_time of the first flow in the file. Not having a start
of file header makes quite a few other things simpler, e.g. you can 
now join flow logs with "cat".

-d




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