Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Automation of Ethereal

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From: "Munshi, Shahid K. (Manpower Contract)" <shahid.k.munshi@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:00:41 -0500
I am interested in automation of tethereal in windows 2000.
Your help will be appreciated...
Shahid Munshi

-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 1:58 PM
To: Paul Hoffman / VPNC
Cc: ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Munshi, Shahid K. (Manpower Contract)
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Automation of Ethereal



On Sep 11, 2003, at 9:44 AM, Paul Hoffman / VPNC wrote:

> But there is a way with tethereal: simply stop the program. You should 
> be able to pipe the tethereal output to a file and, based on the size 
> or contents of the file, stop tethereal from another process. I know 
> you can do this in Perl; it seems likely you can do it in Python.

On Windows?  In UNIX, you can cleanly stop tethereal by sending it 
SIGTERM, but that mechanism isn't available in Windows - and the person 
who asked the question is running on Windows.