# Disabling mailed trace-summary reports

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/disabling-mailed-trace-summary-reports/2251>\
**Category:** Zeek\
**Created:** [March 6, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/disabling-mailed-trace-summary-reports/2251 "2012-03-06T15:07:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Lou\_RUPPERT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@Lou\_RUPPERT](https://community.zeek.org/u/Lou_RUPPERT)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/disabling-mailed-trace-summary-reports/2251/1 "2012-03-06T15:07:49Z")

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Hey,

Has anyone found a way to disable the trace-summary traffic reports?  
The only way I've been able to do it, short of modifying the script code  
itself, is to unset the SendMail variable in broctl.cfg. There must be  
a better way.

I also wonder how good the IPV6 support is in 2.1. Maybe someone can  
comment on that. On the system I do use the reports with, I had to  
write my own wrappers to the inet\_aton and inet\_ntoa functions and then  
comment out the IPV6 subnets in networks.cfg. That seems a lot hackier  
than I like, but I understand that v6 isn't officially supported in 2.0.

- -Lou

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**Author:** ![robin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/community.zeek.org/robin/32/599_2.png) [@robin](https://community.zeek.org/u/robin)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2012, 3:30pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/disabling-mailed-trace-summary-reports/2251/2 "2012-03-06T15:30:02Z")

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> Has anyone found a way to disable the trace-summary traffic reports?

Adding a line "TraceSummary=" to broctl.cfg (i.e., clearing that  
option) should disable it.

> I also wonder how good the IPV6 support is in 2.1. Maybe someone can  
> comment on that. On the system I do use the reports with,

The reports will fully support IPv6 in 2.1. The main piece of that (in  
addition to the inet\_aton changes) is adding support to the underlying  
Python library doing subnet lookups. We have a contributed patch for  
that already but not yet merged it in  
([http://tracker.bro-ids.org/bro/ticket/750](http://tracker.bro-ids.org/bro/ticket/750)).

Robin

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/disabling-mailed-trace-summary-reports/2251/3 "2022-05-06T15:40:14Z")

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