Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] -q option not available for Solaris version.

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 01:45:25PM +0200, Salinas Javier-JSALINA1 wrote:
> I have installed tethereal in a Sun
> Solaris 8 host and in a Linux machine just to get logs from a FTP
> session.  In the Linux side i used the -q option to avoid the burst of
> data on the screen, but in the Solaris host this option is not working,
> even starting the process in background mode.

It works for me on Solaris 7 with the current CVS version of Tethereal:

	tethereal -q -w capture_file

does *NOT* display the counter.  (If you're not using "-w", it does not
display the counter, regardless of whether you're using "-q" or not -
doing so would get in the way of the display of the packets.)

The "-q" flag first appears in Tethereal 0.9.4; are you running 0.9.4 or
later on Solaris (in which case if you specify "-q" it should just
report an "illegal option" error), or are you running a pre-0.9.4
version (in which case you should get a modern version)?