On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Guy Harris wrote:
> FreeBSD, at least, defines P_tmpdir to "/var/tmp"; I'll have to check
> what Solaris does.
Linux (glibc 2.1.1) has "/tmp", Digital Unix 4.0E has "/tmp", Solaris
2.6 has "/var/tmp/". Not all that bad, then (on Solaris /tmp would have
been evil).
> > "The file to which the capture would be saved ("/data/eth/foo") could
> > not be opened: Bad file descriptor."
>
> I'll look into that, although that raises the question of whether "-w"
> should cause *every* capture you take to go to the same file - normally,
> each new capture goes to a new file. A way of specifying the directory
> into which to put the temporary file might be better.
This problem was not for a temporary file, but a single capture session
started off the command line, i'd guess. The -w -i -k parameter
combination did not work at all as documented.
For the single capture started from command line, i'd like to specify
the capture file, and for interactively started captures, i'd like to be
able to specify the directory and file for the file, with the directory
defaulting to the current directory (a largish data disk usually) instead
of the (usually smaller) /tmp or /var/tmp. Yes, a tab in the preferences
dialog for these would be really nice!
> > - I added a display column (preferences/columns), how do i make ethereal
> > redraw the display with the new column shown, without restarting ethereal
> > (saving the capture to another file and reopening it didn't help)?
>
> Unfortunately, you can't, right now.
Would be nice to be able to do these things without restarting, and if
the user needs to restart, i'd guess the software should tell him that it
is required...
Anyway, this is a very promising piece of software. Thanks!
- Hessu
