Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Problem when starting ethereal

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From: Roberto Machado <racm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 17:42:25 -0200 (EDT)

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:

> I bet you became root and for some reason your environment
> variable "DISPLAY" was not carried across. How did you become
> root, via "su - root", or "su root", or am I wrong? "su - root",
> on my system at least, gets rid of the DISPLAY variable, while "su
> root" does not. Anyway, I use "sudo" to start ethereal.

 BTW, I have an intriguing behavior here:

 If I run ethereal as myself (user in the wheel group), everything
 goes fine until I finish capture. Then, there is a dialog box
 complaining the it couldn't create /var/tmp/ether00000NNNNNNN. Well,
 I have write permission to that directory, and can create files in
 /var/tmp with, let's say, "touch" or "cat > /var/tmp/ether...".

 It might be a problem specific to my configuration, but I couldn't
 find it yet. Running as root, there's no problem. I'm using BSDI 3.1.

Regards, Roberto