Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Can you stop tethereal without using CTRL+C?

[Stef <stefmit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Correct! As the user has not specifically stated what the CTRL/C was to 
be used, my thought of applicability was not as much of a "get the last 
drop, and that one entirely", but somewhere along the lines of:

d:\pstools> pskill \\REMOTE_computer_where_I_am_taking_the_trace -u 
lusername <proc_ID_of_tethereal>

I found myself one too many times using some of the tools above 
(including the "opposite" psexec <your_command>), that I totally missed 
the possibility of your interpretation. I apologize for any confusion 
my original link may have caused.

Stef

On Apr 28, 2004, at 2:29 PM, Guy Harris wrote:

> Stef said:
> > http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pstools.shtml
>
> If you're referring to "PsKill", note that it might be more like "kill
> -KILL"/"kill -9" on UNIX; if so, doing that will *NOT* cause Tethereal 
> to
> exit cleanly, as the SIGKILL signal is intended to forcibly terminate
> processes even if they're catching SIGTERM (you *cannot* catch 
> SIGKILL).