At 01:36 PM 3/6/2008, you wrote: > From your latest email I'm not sure if you saw this response. Are you > not on the list? > >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] install from source on SuSe 10 >Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:44:35 -0500 >From: Jeff Morriss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Developer support list for Wireshark <[email protected]> >References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Jim Ham wrote: >[...] >>wireshark: error while loading shared libraries: libwiretap.so.0: cannot open >>shared object file: No such file or directory >>The necessary file is in /usr/local/lib, which is included in >>/etc/ld.so.conf. >>If I do this, it works: >>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib >>wireshark >>Although (another problem) I have to be root to access eth0. >>So two questions: >>1) what do I have to do to let wireshark find the library? > >I'm not sure, but... Did you run ldconfig? That updates the >configuration based on what's in /etc/ld.so.conf . > >>2) what do I have to do to make eth0 available to an ordinary user? > >Make sure /usr/local/bin/dumpcap is owned by root and then: > >chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/dumpcap
Great! All is well :-) In recap: reboot fixed the library not found problem setting u+s on dumpcap fixed the problem where an ordinary user couldn't access eth0 Thanks for the quick fix, and thanks for the private email since I was not monitoring the list. Regards, Jim Ham Porcine Associates +1.650.326.2669 www.porcine.com _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
