Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] ethereal only works when executed in compile directory.

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From: Laurent Deniel <deniel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 12:29:06 +0200
John Morris wrote:
> 
> Linux Redhat 5.2, intel kernel 2.0.37 and 2.2.10, Ethereal versions 6.2, 6.3,
> 7.0.
> I have always had the problem of ethereal -S only working properly if I execute
> it from the directory in which I compiled it. Running it from any other
> working directory brings up its window but will not actualy capture anything if
> the -S option is used.
> 
> I couldn't see mention of this in the user mailing list, am I missing something
> during installation?

It was a known bug in an earlier implementation of the -S option which 
should be fixed (the execution of the capture process was looking for
the ethereal executable in the PATH, but this is no longer true).
Do you have the capture window when you start the capture session 
(the one with the stop button) ?
Do you have two processes running while capturing (can I have the output 
of the ps xw command) ?

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