Ariel Biener wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2001, Daniel Feiglin wrote:
>
>
> Without too much thinking, strace -f ethereal , redirect the output with
> tee to a file as well, and then change the config. Look in the strace
> output file, and you'll see what files it accesses.
>
> --Ariel
>
>
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Last week there was a discussion about network sniffing tools. One mentioned was
>> ethereal, which is a nice alternative to the venerable tcpdump.
>>
>> I got it going OK, but it has a silly default of sampling ALL protocols. After
>> labouriously switching them all off, but for those I wanted, I found next time
>> around, that my "setup" was not saved anywhere.
>>
>> Does anyone know where Ethereal puts its configuration/setup files? Maybe
>> hacking them might help.
>>
>> (I have searched for *ethereal* in /etc and /usr - nothing helpful.)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Daniel Feiglin
>>
>>
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Hello Ariel,
This worked:
strace -e trace=file -o jun.txt ethereal
The tee thing didn't work. man strace, option -o.
And the answer is ...
Look in /root/.ethereal/preferences
What went wrong?
I ran it from a regular user account as super user. (I have ethereal on my
desktop as an icon, with "Run as another user enabled".) For some reason which I
don't care to explore now, it did not set up the above directory and file until
I ran it from an xterm logged in as root i.e.under strace!!
Thanks for the strace idea. I like it!
Regards
Dan Feiglin
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