[Alex Lindberg <alindber@xxxxxxxxx>]

The basic issue is that root does not have write access to the directory you are using.  So either change the directory permissions or set  dumpcap to suid.

1 - chmod 666 <dir> or
2 - sudo chmod +s dumpcap

Best of luck
Alex Lindberg

--- On Tue, 12/8/09, Nicole Powell <mznikkip@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Nicole Powell <mznikkip@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Wireshark-users] Error when saving to multiple files
To: wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 12:43 PM

I am using Ubuntu 9.10 with Wireshark 1.2.2 running as sudo. I want to capture multiple files, 50KB in size and save them in one directory. However when I check 'use multiple files' and 'next file every 50KB; and name the file in the filename box I get the following error:

""The file to which the capture would be saved ("/home/test.pcap") could not be opened: No such file or directory.""

Any ideas why this is happening?
 

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