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

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From: "McNutt, Justin M." <McNuttJ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:15:10 -0500
<shrug>  Or just don't run Windows.  You can get a complete Pentium 4 system from Office Depot for less than $500.  Just build a Linux or BSD machine and have done with it.

Use Windows for MS Office.  :-)

--J

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Hoffman / VPNC [mailto:paul.hoffman@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 4:59 PM
> To: Guy Harris
> Cc: Munshi, Shahid K. (Manpower Contract); ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Automation of Ethereal
> 
> 
> At 12:57 PM -0700 9/11/03, Guy Harris wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Yipes, I wasn't aware of that. I assumed that it would act the same 
> way as Unix.
> 
> In that case, he could run tethereal constantly into a file, and use 
> a Python/Perl script to catch the relevant parts of the file. That's 
> not as easy as what he wanted, but it would have a similar result.
> 
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --VPN Consortium
> 
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