Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Bug in .99 using tethereal?

[Stef <stefmit@xxxxxxxxx>]

While
$ sudo dumpcap
does not produce any output, even though this one is supposed to
default to writing capture files?!? ... or am I missing something
here?!?

On 4/26/06, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> King, John (Greg) (LMIT-HOU) wrote:
> > Or am I just calling this incorrectly?
> >
> > I am trying to configure tethereal to capture 5 files each about 2M in
> > size and then stop.
> >
> > tethereal -i eth1 -a filesize:2000 -a files:5 -w "capture"
> >
> > I let this run for a few minutes and then look at the directory.
> >
> > It is full of thousands of files like so:
> >
> > -rw-------   1 root root     168 Apr 26 09:57 capture_20060426095758
> > -rw-------   1 root root     142 Apr 26 09:57
> > capture_03689_20060426095758
> > -rw-------   1 root root     100 Apr 26 09:57
> > capture_03690_20060426095758
> > -rw-------   1 root root     142 Apr 26 09:57
> > capture_03691_20060426095758
> > -rw-------   1 root root     168 Apr 26 09:57
> > capture_03692_20060426095758
>
> Looks like you're not the only one seeing problems in this area:
>
> http://bugs.ethereal.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=895
>
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