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From: cc <cc@belfordhk.com>
To: Netfilter Group <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: maybe out of topic
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 09:47:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F52A51E.9040604@belfordhk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F4EA5D3.1010504@skyinet.net>

jaws wrote:

> I'm just wondering why im getting this error:
> 
> [root@tracker root]#/usr/sbin/tcpdump -i eth0
> Couldn't find user 'pcap'
> 
> [root@tracker root]# rpm -qa | grep pcap
> libpcap-0.7.2-1

I don't use RH, but the error message was
"Couldn't find user 'pcap'" and had nothing
to do with the library libpcap.

Now, being a non-RH user, I don't know what
the setup is like.  I'm just going by the
error message.

Why does tcpdump require the user 'pcap'?
I'm interested in knowing myself.






      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-01  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-29  1:01 maybe out of topic jaws
2003-08-31 10:42 ` Ralf Spenneberg
2003-09-01  1:47 ` cc [this message]

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