# echo '#!/bin/sh' > tethereal_wrapper
# echo 'umask 644' >> tethereal_wrapper
# echo 'umask tethereal $*' >> tethereal_wrapper
# chmod +x tethereal_wrapper
# tethereal_wrapper -w /hog_partition/file.cap
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On 1/31/06, Webber, R. Marshall <Marshall.Webber@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Newbie ethereal, but been around the block with Unix for a while.
>
> When in capture mode as root, my files are being captured to a hog
> partition. My root umask should produce files with
> rw-r--r-- perms. But all of my capture files are being written as
> rw------- which isn't much use to me. There are several people on the
> system that we want to have access to the captures but not give them
> root to perform the captures.
>
> I looked through the FAQs, the .ethereal config file and and docs I
> could lay my hands on..nothing.
>
> Is this configurable?
>
> RMW
>
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