rotateSnoop

#!/bin/ksh
# Author        : bonstechblog
#                 www bonstechblog.wordpress.com
#
# Filename      : rotateSnoop
# Description   : This script runs a snoop trace and outputs a new file
#                 every 130000 packets.  It also keeps check of the number
#                 of output files and deletes the oldest once over that
#                 number.
#
#
# Created       :
#       VER     DATE            ORIGINATOR      DESCRIPTION
#       1.0     23/01/2013      bonstechblog   First version
while :;
do
 nice snoop -d e1000g1 -c 210000 -o /opt/`hostname`Snoop_`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.cap udp > /dev/null 2>&1
 fileCount=$( ls -al /opt/`hostname`Snoop*|/bin/wc -l )
 if [ $fileCount -gt 50 ]
 then
  rm $( ls -alt /opt/`hostname`Snoop*|tail -1|awk '{print$NF}' )
 fi
done
exit