Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] auto archive of ethereal logs

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 01:39:35 -0700
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:49:44PM +0200, Marco van den Bovenkamp wrote:
> Redmond Militante wrote:
> 
> > i have a quick question - is there a way to get ethereal to auto save
> > and archive logs, say, every 4-5 hours?
> 
> Capture -> Start -> Use Ring Buffer -> Rotate capture file every (n) 
> seconds.

...and leave the "Number of files" as 0, meaning "keep opening new
files".

(The GUI should arguably have "second(s)" be an option menu, with
"minutes", "hours", and possibly "days" options, so that you don't have
to say "14400" when you mean "4 hours".)