Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] John's almost-real-time capture

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From: Laurent Deniel <deniel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 22:46:03 +0200
Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > Can someone else test this patch to ethereal? It works fine on John's
> > red hat box, but I cannot get it to work on my Debian Linux box or on my
> > Solaris 2.6 box.
> 
> When I start up the program and select "Tools/Capture" and then click on
> the "OK" button in the "Capture Preferences" window, it:
> 
>         1) creates a *second* Ethereal window;
> 
>         2) complains
> 
>                 ethereal: illegal option -- k
>                 ethereal: illegal option -- Q
> 
> on its standard error.
> 
> If I select "Tools/Capture" in the second window, I get an ordinary
> boring non-real-time capture.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong, or do I need to apply another patch, over
> and above the one you sent out?


This is due to the fact that you have multiple ethereal binaries in the
path. Put '.' first ...

Laurent.

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