Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Problem with Wireshark on Mac.

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:27:50 -0700

On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:24 PM, Abhishek Dwaraki wrote:

Just needed some help on getting Wireshark to run on a MacBook Pro. It is an Intel based Mac and this is the story till now. I downloaded the .dmg file from Sourceforge,net and have installed the app correctly. The next step happens to be copying those files for the Wireshark command line into some dir that is there is PATH. I did not get this step. Actually, I am not able to edit my $PATH variable to point to wherever I have copied the files to.

See John Nickell's mail on that (it applies if your shell is bash or ksh; for tcsh, you'd edit .login).

The other problem is that the Startup mode thing, ChmodBPF does not seem to work for me.

Have you followed the directions in the "README.macosx" file in the Utilities/Startup directory?

If so, note that you also have to make sure that /Library/StarupItems/ ChmodBPF directory, *and* all the files in that directory, are owned by root. Then do

	sudo /sbin/SystemStarter start ChmodBPF

to run the newly-installed startup item, to change the permissions on the BPF devices. That startup item will be run at startup time the next time the machine is booted.