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Re: Req: Information regarding wireshark file logging
From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 13:17:06 -0700
On May 31, 2010, at 6:54 AM, Douglas Ross wrote:
I'd like to discuss a point about "temporary" files. In my experience (Windows), ethereal/wireshark creates files in the location specified by the user (if not stdout). So they are "permanent".
As Jaap noted, the user doesn't have to specify a location - and, if they don't, it doesn't get written to the standard output. (In fact, Ethereal/Wireshark never allowed the capture to be written to the standard output, and never will allow that; the capture has to exist in some form of storage as long as it's open.) If the user doesn't specify a location, the packets are written to a file in a temporary file directory; if the user closes the capture, the file is removed. It is a named file in the file system, so it's "permanent" in that sense, but it's removed when the capture is closed, so it's not "permanent" in that sense. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-users mailing list <wireshark-users () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-users mailto:wireshark-users-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Req: Information regarding wireshark file logging surabhi pandey (May 30)
- Re: Req: Information regarding wireshark file logging Douglas Ross (May 31)
- Re: Req: Information regarding wireshark file logging Guy Harris (May 31)
- Re: Req: Information regarding wireshark file logging Douglas Ross (May 31)
- Re: Req: Information regarding wireshark file logging Jaap Keuter (May 31)
- Re: Req: Information regarding wireshark file logging Guy Harris (May 31)
- Re: Req: Information regarding wireshark file logging Douglas Ross (May 31)
- Re: Req: Information regarding wireshark file logging Douglas Ross (May 31)