Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] tethereal as daemon

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:13:57 +0200
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 10:36:22PM -0700, Jerry Talkington wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 10:03:48AM -0400, Michael D. Berger wrote:
> > I would like it to start automatically when the machine
> > is booted, hopefully under the control of a script
> > in /etc/init.d .
> 
> You could certainly create a script to run it, using something like the
> -b option to create ring buffer files.  I'd probably just stick it in
> /etc/rc.local and kill it manually if I didn't want it running anymore
> ;)

hardcorehackers add tethereal to /etc/inittab ;-)

 ciao
 Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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