Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal-0.8.18-9 on Redhat 7.2

[James Pifer <ethereallist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, I am running it as root. 

James

On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 11:45, Breen Mullins wrote:
> At 10:59 AM -05002/15/02, you wrote:
> 
> >I installed Ethereal-0.8.18-9 on Redhat 7.2 using the rpm and the -ivh
> >rpm options. It installed fine, no errors, but I cannot run the GUI. I
> >type 'ethereal &' in a terminal windows and nothing happens. If I grep
> >for ethereal it isn't running.
> >
> >tethereal runs from the terminal window ok.
> >
> >Is there a way to check why the gui will not load?
> 
> You probably aren't running as root. Newer GTK+ libraries won't
> allow you to run a GUI program SUID.
> 
> Try running ethereal from sudo:
> 
> $ sudo ethereal
> 
> Cheers --
> 
> Breen
> 
> --
> Breen Mullins
> 
> SQA Engineer
> Asante Technologies, Inc.
> 800-662-9686x323
> <bmullins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
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