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Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Can no longer capture to file?

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 22:56:42 +0200
Ravdal, Stig wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have been using Ethereal for some time now.
>
> Recently I upgraded to the latest version because of the vulnerability
> in previous version. Things look a little different but it�s mostly
> the same.
>
> However, I can no longer capture to a file.
>
> Example:
>
> I go to Capture > Options I set it up to use multiple files (not that
> it makes any difference with multiple or single)
>
> I set nextfile every 100MB and every 4 hours (I have played with these
> options and the result is the same)
>
> I set the file capture directory and put in a name.
>
> When I go to start capture it balks and tells me the file does not
> exist � this was not a problem before.
>
> Well I figured I could create a file to start from � in this case when
> I go to capture it just opens the existing file and displays it � no
> ongoing capture.
>
> I�m kinda stumped at this point � not sure where to go from here.
>
> Has anyone experienced this problem?
>
Yes, there were reported problems of these kind.

I've did a major rework of the capturing engine (as it shows some
"age"), but unfortunately introducing new bugs :-(

Someone reported before that using an absolute path for the capture file
name solved his problem.

Could you provide a screen shot of the capture options and one of the
error message?

Regards, ULFL