On Saturday 13 Sep 2003 1:05 pm, HaywireMac wrote: > On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 07:57:48 -0400 > > HaywireMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > I want to run Ethereal on my server, but must it be run as root? > > > > Is there some way to give myself or group perms on reading eth0? > > > > Tanks! > > scratch that, too much of a load on the server, LOL! > > how about a nice CLI tool I can use to show traffic in real time, > filtering out local traffic, ie. DHCP, etc., that won't put a huge > load on this tired old P166...?
tethereal is the CLI build of ethereal. If you have ethereal then you have tethereal. There is no easy answer to the permissions problem since capturing raw network traffic requires one or two capabilities that only root has. The official* line is to wait until the filesystems become capability-aware, on which there doesn't seem to be any movement since kernel 2.2.19. * In as much as a GPL project has an oficial line. -- Richard Urwin
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