Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] A few questions...
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 16:41:06 +0100, Marco van den Bovenkamp
<marco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Amir Oded wrote:
>
> > 1. I know it is possible to start capturing from the command line, and I
> > am wondering if there is a command for stopping the capture and saving
> > it to a file using a different command. Until now all I could accomplish was start and capture
> > within a single command. What I need is the option to start and stop the
> > capture in two commands instead of one. Is this supported by tethereal?
>
> Not directly, but you could just 'kill -QUIT' the tethereal process (on
> Unix). There are probably ways to do it on Windows as well, if that's
> what you're using.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pskill.shtml
If I am not mistaken, the Windows one may leave you with truncated captures.
>
> > 2. In order to use the capture files in my environment I need to use the
> > "print" option from the file menu, and then printing to a file in
> > expended mode (I am using a parser for the results), is there a possibility to do this from the command
> > line, and that the capture savefile will automatically be in that format.
>
> Look at the '-V' option (and perhaps '-x' as well) and redirect the
> output to a file.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Marco.
>
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