Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] print on solaris crashes

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From: Chris Ricker <kaboom@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:34:46 -0700 (MST)
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Guy Harris wrote:

> Did you read a capture file, or did you do a live capture?  If you did a
> live capture, the capture file is probably in "/tmp" or "/var/tmp" with
> a name beginning with "etherXXXX".  In either case, save a copy of the
> capture file, and try running
> 
> 	tethereal -V -r {the capture file name} >/dev/null
> 
> and see if it crashes.

It was a live capture.  Unfortunately, none of the temporary captures I can
find on the system crash either ethereal or tethereal.

If I get a stream which crashes it reliably, I'll send it in.

thanks,
chris