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tcpick


Information about the package, tcpick, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The tcpick package is designed for, A tcp stream sniffer, tracker and capturer.


Package Name:

tcpick

Summary:

A tcp stream sniffer, tracker and capturer

Description:

tcpick is a textmode sniffer that can track tcp streams and saves the data captured in files or displays them in the terminal. Useful for picking files in a passive way. It can store all connections in different files, or it can display all the stream on the terminal. It is useful to keep track of what users of a network are doing, and is usable with textmode tools like grep, sed and awk. It can handle eth and ppp interfaces.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.2.1

Release:

17.el6

Size:

48 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for tcpick


Control the tcpick package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install tcpick

This command will install tcpick on the server.

yum remove tcpick

This command will un-install tcpick on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove tcpick, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove tcpick

This command will un-install tcpick on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove tcpick when using the -y flag.

yum update tcpick

This command will update tcpick to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove tcpick, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update tcpick

This command will update tcpick to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove tcpick when using the -y flag.

yum info tcpick

This command will show you core information about the tcpick package.

yum deplist tcpick

This command will show you the dependencies for tcpick. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update tcpick

This command will check if there is an update waiting on tcpick. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.