can't launch Ethereal as root
Jack Jackson
jackson.linux at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 20:38:06 UTC 2005
Has alt+F2 and then
gksu -u root /usr/bin/ethereal
not worked for you? Is root actually enabled on your setup, that is,
have you set a specific root password?
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.
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> I can run it as a user, but that does no good to look at live
> traffic..
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> Any ideas?
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