Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Bug in .99 using tethereal?

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From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:01:11 +0800


King, John (Greg) (LMIT-HOU) wrote:
Or am I just calling this incorrectly?

I am trying to configure tethereal to capture 5 files each about 2M in
size and then stop.

tethereal -i eth1 -a filesize:2000 -a files:5 -w "capture"

I let this run for a few minutes and then look at the directory.

It is full of thousands of files like so:

-rw-------   1 root root     168 Apr 26 09:57 capture_20060426095758
-rw-------   1 root root     142 Apr 26 09:57
capture_03689_20060426095758
-rw-------   1 root root     100 Apr 26 09:57
capture_03690_20060426095758
-rw-------   1 root root     142 Apr 26 09:57
capture_03691_20060426095758
-rw-------   1 root root     168 Apr 26 09:57
capture_03692_20060426095758

Looks like you're not the only one seeing problems in this area:

http://bugs.ethereal.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=895