can't launch Ethereal as root

kidgoo ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Thu Aug 18 16:54:53 UTC 2005


I am having a similar yet probably unrelated problem.  If I try to run
ethereal as root, I get simply: Could not set capabilities: Operation
not permitted.



I can run it as a user, but that does no good to look at live
traffic..



Any ideas?


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kidgoo




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