Ethereal rights

2002-06-06 Thread Jeff Johnson
I try to capture traffic with ethereal and I dont have the permissions for the device. sou i try to run it from a root console and X cannot open display. I am thinking I should maybe add myself to some group or another. any ideas? Thanks -jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ethereal rights

2002-06-06 Thread Joseph Dane
Jeff == Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff I try to capture traffic with ethereal and I dont have the Jeff permissions for the device. sou i try to run it from a root Jeff console and X cannot open display. one way of doing this is * as non-root owner of the X session, do xauth

Re: Ethereal rights

2002-06-06 Thread Jeff
Joseph Dane, 2002-Jun-06 09:35 -1000: Jeff == Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff I try to capture traffic with ethereal and I dont have the Jeff permissions for the device. sou i try to run it from a root Jeff console and X cannot open display. one way of doing this is *

Re: Ethereal rights

2002-06-06 Thread Jeff Johnson
Thanks Joseph, This works. are there any more permanent solutions so this doesn't have to be done every time i wish to run ethereal? -jeff On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 12:35, Joseph Dane wrote: Jeff == Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff I try to capture traffic with ethereal and I dont

Re: Ethereal rights

2002-06-06 Thread Joseph Dane
Jeff == Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff are there any more permanent solutions so this doesn't have to Jeff be done every time i wish to run ethereal? one way would be to use the XAUTHORITY enviroment variable, which names the file in which authorization info is kept. if the X

Re: Ethereal rights

2002-06-06 Thread Jeff Johnson
Thanks Jeff, I will try this. On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 13:04, Jeff wrote: Joseph Dane, 2002-Jun-06 09:35 -1000: Jeff == Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff I try to capture traffic with ethereal and I dont have the Jeff permissions for the device. sou i try to run it from a