daemonlogger mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• daemonlogger

Projektgeschichte

The official README credits Martin Roesch as author and records Sourcefire copyright from 2006-2013, followed by Cisco copyright from 2013-2021. The current official GitHub repository describes itself as the official repository and was created under Cisco-Talos in 2015, after Cisco's Sourcefire acquisition era had folded the tool into Cisco's security tooling orbit.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Daemonlogger's adoption has been strongest in packet-capture and security-operations environments where pcap output, BPF filters, daemon mode, and ring-buffer behavior are enough. Its official README still points users to the daemonlogger-users mailing list, reflecting an older SourceForge-era open-source support pattern.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run daemonlogger with switches for interface selection, daemonization, BPF filter files, packet-count limits, output paths, ring-buffer pruning, rollover size or time, and soft-tap output. The README explicitly frames its BPF filter syntax as familiar to tcpdump or Snort users.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Daemonlogger matters to package nerds because it is a narrow, old-school Unix networking utility: one executable, libpcap/libdnet dependencies, pcap files as the interchange format, and behavior that fits service managers and shell scripts.

Zeitleiste

• 2006: Sourcefire copyright period for Daemonlogger begins.
• 2013: Cisco copyright period begins.
• 2015: Official Cisco-Talos GitHub repository is created.
• 2021: README lists version 1.2.1 and Cisco copyright through 2021.

Related projects

• Daemonlogger sits near tcpdump, Snort, libpcap, and libdnet in the Unix packet-capture ecosystem.

Quellen

• https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/Daemonlogger
• https://api.github.com/repos/Cisco-Talos/Daemonlogger
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Cisco-Talos/Daemonlogger/master/README