Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] tshark and /tmp/etherXXXX files

["Luis EG Ontanon" <luis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Or... what happens if you try to open these files with wireshark?
 Does it crash?

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Luis EG Ontanon <luis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I guess these are very large files. Most people wouldn't bother if they weren't.
>
> So I guess you are doing long running captures and periodically tshark
> crashes http://wiki.wireshark.org/KnownBugs/OutOfMemory .
>
> You could "wrap" tshark in a script that cleans behind those files.
>
> A Developer wonders if we can set a call back for when g_malloc() fails?
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> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Dan Murphy <danmurphy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Just installed v 1.0.2.  Same thing.  tshark leave behind files in tmp.
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>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> On Jul 17, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Dan Murphy wrote:
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>>> >     I'm running v 99.7 and I have a problem where the temp
>>> > files are kind of becoming unmanageable.  I noticed my old version
>>> > 99.5 does not create these.
>>>
>>> What happens if you run the *current* version of TShark, which is 1.0.2:
>>>
>>>        http://www.wireshark.org/news/20080710.html
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