can't launch Ethereal as root

[Magnus Therning]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:54:53PM -0400, kidgoo wrote:
>
>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?

Run it using sudo (or gksudo). There's a bug in the Hoary package (last
time I looked at least) where gksu was used in the .desktop file. Modify
it to use gksudo instead.

/M

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