Dougie Nisbet, 2002-Jan-31 17:53 +0000: > Is there any way I can use ethereal to just monitor traffic? It always wants > to write to a file, (/tmp/ethxxxx). I've not tried telling it to use > /dev/null yet. I'll see what that does. > > Dougie
I just started ethereal as such: # ethereal -w /dev/null and it still used the /tmp/ethxxxx file. It simply sent the /tmp file to /dev/null when I closed it. So, I started it again the same way and started a capture. This time I did this: # cd /tmp # ls eth* etherXXXXI4Abxa # rm etherXXXXI4Abxa && ln -s /dev/null/etherXXXXI4Abxa # ll eth* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 6 22:03 etherXXXXI4Abxa -> /dev/null This worked fine, sending all the captured data to null. jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
