Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Problem running ethereal

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 16:02:55 -0700

On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 2:48 AM, Liam Whalen wrote:

Yes it does thankyou

That's probably because the X server only allows processes running under your user ID to connect, but Ethereal's running as root; "xhost +root" might also do it.