Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] tshark creates files in temp dir

["Al Aghili" <aaghili@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We're stopping it by killing the tshark process through a kill command
which I would think is not graceful. How do you recommend killing tshark
programmatically?

Thanks
Al

-----Original Message-----
From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen
Fisher
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 2:39 PM
To: Community support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] tshark creates files in temp dir

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:39:32AM -0700, Al Aghili wrote:

> When we run tshark on windows it sometimes creates these large files 
> in Windows/temp directory that start with "ether". Is there a way to 
> turn this off?

These files are used for temporarily storing captured data for the 
session that you run tshark for.  They should be deleted when tshark is 
closed and able to quit gracefully.  They cannot be turned off.  What 
version of tshark/Wireshark are you using?  How are you stopping tshark?


Steve

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