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| author | Gilbert Ramirez <gram@alumni.rice.edu> | 1999-04-06 16:35:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Gilbert Ramirez <gram@alumni.rice.edu> | 1999-04-06 16:35:47 +0000 |
| commit | 5ccc874dbedb74b791274c811d9b518bafc89a52 (patch) | |
| tree | 48ae890f4dc6b82ae20aa5a25552b6e4047766bb /doc | |
| parent | 2870ce29ce6b02be8a1e3044e98800d3db45d82c (diff) | |
Touch-up fixes to my previous fix of making the packet-capture facility save
to a file unknown to the user first. The manpage has now been updated to reflect
the ability of the user to use the TMPDIR environment variable to change the
location of this capture file. And now the capture file is deleted when
ethereal exits, if the user has not saved the trace file.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=243
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ethereal.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ethereal.pod b/doc/ethereal.pod index 84bf091203..e783d3a5c9 100644 --- a/doc/ethereal.pod +++ b/doc/ethereal.pod @@ -126,6 +126,10 @@ Sets the packet printing and filter options (see L<"Preferences"> below). =item Tools:Capture Initiates a live packet capture (see L<"Capture Preferences"> below). +A temporary file will be created to hold the capture. The location of the +file can be chosen by setting your TMPDIR environment variable before +starting ethereal. Otherwise, the default TMPDIR location is system-dependent, +but is likely either /var/tmp or /tmp. =item Tools:Follow TCP Stream |