Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] help required!

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:07:43AM -0800, Rocky wrote:
>       I just downloaded ethereal 0.9.1 and it is a
> very useful tool. I was trying to use tethereal and
> ran into problems. I am trying to run tethereal for 30
> secs and letting it pick the wireless traffic. All
> seems well if there is traffic but if there isn't any,
> then tethereal won't exit after 30 secs.

"-a duration:{time}" currently doesn't work in Tethereal.

Try running Tethereal without that option, get the process ID of the
process running Tethereal, and then send it a SIGTERM 30 seconds later.