On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 01:53:59PM -0600, Roberto Machado wrote:
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> On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
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> > 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.
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> BTW, I have an intriguing behavior here:
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> 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...".
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> 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.
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> Regards, Roberto
The code that creates the temporary capture file does this:
old_umask = umask(0077);
tmp_fd = mkstemp(namebuf);
umask(old_umask);
It changes the umask before creating the file. In your configuration,
can you run this successfully from the shell?
umask 0077; touch /var/temp/ether.test
If so, what does `ls -dl /var/tmp` show?
--gilbert
