Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] How to terminate tethereal from a tcl progra m on Windows?
Arti,
This may not be the same problem as you, but a work colleague and I have
been having continuing problems with Ctrl-Break and Ctrl-C handling and
tethereal since version 0.9 came out.
http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200202/msg00311.html
http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200202/msg00253.html
http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200202/msg00183.html
Ctrl-Break halts tethereal immediately without allowing it to flush its file
buffers. That's why you loose frames and get corrupted partial frame at the
end of the file. If you use Ctrl-C you (or at least I) get a Dr Watson:
Tethereal.exe Exception (0xc0000029), Address 0x77f8918e. If you have
collecting from a particularly busy network and tethereal can't keep up with
name resolution it is even possible to get a "blue screen". A search on
google for 0xc0000029 shows that other Perl and Ruby based apps also seem to
have this problem with Ctrl-C .
Our current workaround is to use 0.8.20 which doesn't have this problem.
Perhaps this will solve yours too.
If you really must use 0.9.x then you could use the "-a" flag to hard code
the end of trace.
Alistair
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arti Sood [SMTP:arti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 4:41 PM
> To: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Ethereal-users] How to terminate tethereal from a tcl
> program on Windows?
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have been using tethereal 0.9.1 and using it in tcl based batch program.
> Can
> any one tell me how I can stop the tethereal gracefully so that I get a
> capture
> file which can be viewed or used . I get a message like "The capture file
> was
> cut short in the middle of a packet" when I try to view the captured file
> using
> ethereal or tethereal .
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arti
>
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