Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] tcpdump -w - | ethereal -S -- How?

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From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 07:27:41 -0400
Guy Harris:
 |> Now that it's built, I've yet to figure out the syntactic sugar to get
 |> ethereal to read a hot "tcpdump -w -" stream.  It sounds like that is what
 |> -S is for, but I've tried piping to ethereal's stdin,
 |
 |Ethereal doesn't currently support reading from a pipe. 
...
 |"-S" is for getting Ethereal *itself* to create a subprocess to capture
 |and write to a file, and have the main process read from that file.

Ok, thanks.  What I'm trying to figure out is a way to have ethereal
running constantly without making it setuid root, but at the same time, not
reading from a file that's constantly growing larger in size.

Randall