Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Command in order to stop tethereal capture

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From: Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:13:38 +1000
Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:52:49AM +0200, Carolina Gómez wrote:
> 
>>I would like to know how stop the capture using tethereal and without any
>>option -a.
> 
> 
> Just press CTRL-C

Which only works if you have it running at a command prompt. What if it
was run from an init script or cron or Window's equivalents? It might be
better expressed as "send it a TERM signal".

Ctrl-C

kill -TERM <processid>

pskill tethereal
see http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsKill.html

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