Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Problem with Wireshark on Mac.
On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:24 PM, Abhishek Dwaraki wrote:
Just needed some help on getting Wireshark to run on
a MacBook Pro. It is an Intel based Mac and this is the story till
now. I downloaded the .dmg file from Sourceforge,net and have
installed the app correctly. The next step happens to be copying
those files for the Wireshark command line into some dir that is
there is PATH. I did not get this step. Actually, I am not able to
edit my $PATH variable to point to wherever I have copied the files
to.
See John Nickell's mail on that (it applies if your shell is bash or
ksh; for tcsh, you'd edit .login).
The other problem is that the Startup mode thing, ChmodBPF does not
seem to work for me.
Have you followed the directions in the "README.macosx" file in the
Utilities/Startup directory?
If so, note that you also have to make sure that /Library/StarupItems/
ChmodBPF directory, *and* all the files in that directory, are owned
by root. Then do
sudo /sbin/SystemStarter start ChmodBPF
to run the newly-installed startup item, to change the permissions on
the BPF devices. That startup item will be run at startup time the
next time the machine is booted.
