Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Stop Capturing

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:00:20 -0800
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 09:16:50PM -0700, S. Faizi wrote:
> Does ethereal trap any signals for starting and stopping capture?

No.

> Is there a better way of doing this than the approach I am planning?

Use Tethereal instead - this really sounds like a background type of
operation, not something to be done with an interactive program like
Ethereal.  If you send Tethereal a SIGTERM, it will stop capturing and
cleanly terminate (modulo bugs, of course).