Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] ethereal + KDE 2.0 problem

[Claus Wagner <Claus.Wagner@xxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:22:42AM +0100, Claus Wagner wrote:
> > if I try in 'capture dialog': --> radio button 'update list of packets
> > in real time', a warning pops up: "Couldn't run ethereal in child
> > process: No such file
> > or directory". Without this setting it works fine. This is with ethereal
> > 0.8.12 - 0.8.14. It was fine with the previous version of KDE (1.2)!
> >
> > Any suggestions or advice?
> 
> Are you running Ethereal from a terminal window (xterm, kvt, etc.), or
> are you running it from the GUI (desktop item or shortcut,
> Start^H^H^H^H^HKgear menu, etc.)?
> 
> If you're running it from the GUI, the code that's running might be
> passing it an "argv[0]" argument that can't be used as a pathname to run
> Ethereal (which is perfectly within its rights to do); this may have
> changed between 1.x and 2.x.
> 
> If you're building from source, try adding to "main()" in "gtk/main.c"
> 
>         {
>         FILE *foo = fopen("/tmp/ethereal_path", "w");
>         fprintf(foo, "argv[0] = \"%s\"\n", argv[0]);
>         fclose(foo);
>         }
> 
> at the very beginning, building it (and fixing any typos in my sample
> code :-)), and see what it puts in "/tmp/ethereal_path".

Hi,

I put the fix in. Result: when running from an icon, argv[0] equals
"ethereal", but when launching it from the command line, it says
"ethereal-capture".

Any hints what's the difference here between KDW v 1.2 and 2.0?

Thanks in advance
Claus