On 12/19/06, Gerald Combs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Nighswonger wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've run into the proverbial pcap.h issue. I'm running FC6 and have > > both libcap and libcap-devel installed via Yum. Most likely neither > > included the pcap.h header file. So, my question is: Can I simply > > download the libcap source and do a "make install-incl" to obtain the > > missing files WITHOUT damaging my current install of libcap and > > libcap-devel (since nearly the entire system depends on these)? > > You might want to double-check that you have libpcap and libpcap-devel > (the packet capture library) installed, and not libcap and libcap-devel > (the Linux/POSIX capabilities library). It's pretty easy to get tripped > up by this.
Opps! Spelling would help here, wouldn't it? I yummed up libpcap, et. al. and away it went. > > BTW, do any popular Linux distributions support file system capabilities > out of the box yet? It'd be nice to be able to grant CAP_NET_RAW to > Wireshark/TShark instead of having to run as root. Capabilities have > been in the kernel for a few years now, after all... I'm not sure on the answer to this one. Thanks for your help. Chris -- Chris Nighswonger Network & Systems Director Foundations Bible College & Seminary www.foundations.edu _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users
