Linux cli command kismet

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NAME 🖥️ kismet 🖥️

wireless sniffer and monitor

SYNOPSIS

kismet [OPTION]

DESCRIPTION

Nearly all of these options are run-time overrides for values in the kismet.conf configuration file. Permanent changes should be made to the configuration file.

GENERIC OPTIONS

-v, –version Show version

–no-console-wrapper
Disable server console wrapper

–no-ncurses-wrapper
Disable server console wrapper

–debug
Disable the console wrapper and the crash handling functions, for debugging

-f, –config-file <file>
Use alternate configuration file

–no-line-wrap
Turn of linewrapping of output (for grep, speed, etc)

-s, –silent
Turn off stdout output after setup phase

–daemonize
Spawn detached in the background

–no-plugins
Do not load plugins

–homedir <path>
Use an alternate path as the home directory instead of the user entry

–confdir <path>
Use an alternate path as the base config directory instead of the default set at compile time

–datadir <path>
Use an alternate path as the data directory instead of the default set at compile time.

LOGGING OPTIONS

-T, –log-types <types> Override activated log types
-t, –log-title <title> Override default log title: -p, –log-prefix <prefix> Directory to store log files
-n, –no-logging Disable logging entirely

DEVICE TRACKING OPTIONS

–device-timeout=n
Expire devices after N seconds

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for Kismet is maintained in a separate package kismet-docs. More information here: https://www.kismetwireless.net/docs

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