I recently installed wireshark on my linux system. I run Mageia3
I followed the guidance at
http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/CapturePrivileges, but following
the directions under "Setting network privileges for dumpcap" or
"Limiting capture permission to only on group" did not allow wireshark
to be run as a user. It does run as root and cannot be stopped without
killing the app.
I setuid on dumpcap to run wireshark gui as a user and that works, but
after I begin a capture I am unable to stop it with the 'Stop' button or
by doing Ctrl-E. I have to go in and kill the pid.
wireshark -v shows:
wireshark 1.10.11 (Git Rev Unknown from unknown)
Compiled (64-bit) with GTK+ 3.6.4, with Cairo 1.12.12, with Pango
1.32.5, with
GLib 2.34.3, with libpcap, with libz 1.2.7, with POSIX capabilities (Linux),
with libnl 3, with SMI 0.4.8, without c-ares, without ADNS, with Lua 5.1,
without Python, with GnuTLS 3.1.16, with Gcrypt 1.5.4, with MIT
Kerberos, with
GeoIP, with PortAudio V19-devel (built Jan 13 2013), without AirPcap.
Running on Linux 3.10.60-desktop-1.mga3, with locale en_US.UTF-8, with
libpcap
version 1.3.0, with libz 1.2.7, GnuTLS 3.1.16, Gcrypt 1.5.4.
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz
Built using gcc 4.7.2.
Advice on how to stop an active capture without resorting to the kill
command would be most appreciated.
Thank you.
--
Leon
