ChrisM666
Registered Idiot
An early app on my 2008-new Mac was Wireshark (1.0.2, I think). It's sole irritating fault was that the GUI menus were very cramped and hard to read.
Then it started going a bit awry: clicking on its icon brought up X11 only and a second clicking was needed to get WS. Then I saw a 1.0.7 was available and I d'loaded and installed it. It had a much better GUI but when it started it would not run: starting a capture, it stopped with the message:
"The capture session could not be initiated ((no devices found) /dev/bpf0: Permission denied).".
Running from the CLI (sudo wireshark) worked... but then didn't.
I installed macports and then its wireshark port via CLI. It was compiled - it looked successfully - but was not visible from the Finder!
What wireshark version are you using and would recommend?
How do I safely clean out the dregs of the 3 or 4 installs that litter my hard disk so as not to taint the install htat finally works (see above)?
Then it started going a bit awry: clicking on its icon brought up X11 only and a second clicking was needed to get WS. Then I saw a 1.0.7 was available and I d'loaded and installed it. It had a much better GUI but when it started it would not run: starting a capture, it stopped with the message:
"The capture session could not be initiated ((no devices found) /dev/bpf0: Permission denied).".
Running from the CLI (sudo wireshark) worked... but then didn't.
I installed macports and then its wireshark port via CLI. It was compiled - it looked successfully - but was not visible from the Finder!
What wireshark version are you using and would recommend?
How do I safely clean out the dregs of the 3 or 4 installs that litter my hard disk so as not to taint the install htat finally works (see above)?