Re: ethereal always writes to a file

[Jeff <jcoppock1@attbi.com>]

Dougie Nisbet, 2002-Jan-31 17:53 +0000:
> Is there any way I can use ethereal to just monitor traffic? It always wants 
> to write to a file, (/tmp/ethxxxx). I've not tried telling it to use 
> /dev/null yet. I'll see what that does.
> 
> Dougie

I just started ethereal as such:

# ethereal -w /dev/null

and it still used the /tmp/ethxxxx file.  It simply sent the /tmp
file to /dev/null when I closed it.  So, I started it again the
same way and started a capture.  This time I did this:

# cd /tmp
# ls eth*
etherXXXXI4Abxa
# rm etherXXXXI4Abxa && ln -s /dev/null/etherXXXXI4Abxa
# ll eth*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 6 22:03 etherXXXXI4Abxa -> /dev/null

This worked fine, sending all the captured data to null.

jc

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