Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] ethereal (any recent version) and ucd-snmp 4.2

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From: "HOOD, Andy" <ahood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 12:40:33 +1000
Has anyone else had trouble with ethereal when run as root overwriting
ucd-snmp's MIB .index file. It looks like the file gets opened to be updated
but either never written or not closed, thus winding up with size 0.

It does not happen with ucd-snmp 4.1.2.

I've seen this on Solaris and Linux.

Regards,
Andrew Hood
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't
even know existed can render your own computer unusable. -- Leslie Lamport,
as quoted in CACM, June 1992