Package: ethereal
Version: 0.10.12-2
I think this says it all
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# ethereal
Could not set capabilities: Operation not permitted
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ethereal is version 0.10.12-2
kernel is kernel-image-2.6.11-9-amd64-k8 version 2.6.11-4 (i386 debian
system)
the tail end of strace ethereal is
capget(0x19980330, 0, {CAP_CHOWN|CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE|CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH|
CAP_FOWNER|CAP_FSETID|CAP_KILL|CAP_SETGID|CAP_SETUID|
CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE|CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE|CAP_NET_BROADCAST|
CAP_NET_ADMIN|CAP_NET_RAW|CAP_IPC_LOCK|CAP_IPC_OWNER|CAP_SYS_MODULE|
CAP_SYS_RAWIO|CAP_SYS_CHROOT|CAP_SYS_PTRACE|CAP_SYS_PACCT|CAP_SYS_ADMIN|
CAP_SYS_BOOT|CAP_SYS_NICE|CAP_SYS_RESOURCE|CAP_SYS_TIME|
CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG|0xf8000000, CAP_CHOWN|CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE|
CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH|CAP_FOWNER|CAP_FSETID|CAP_KILL|CAP_SETGID|
CAP_SETUID|CAP_SETPCAP|CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE|CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE|
CAP_NET_BROADCAST|CAP_NET_ADMIN|CAP_NET_RAW|CAP_IPC_LOCK|CAP_IPC_OWNER|
CAP_SYS_MODULE|CAP_SYS_RAWIO|CAP_SYS_CHROOT|CAP_SYS_PTRACE|
CAP_SYS_PACCT|CAP_SYS_ADMIN|CAP_SYS_BOOT|CAP_SYS_NICE|CAP_SYS_RESOURCE|
CAP_SYS_TIME|CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG|0xf8000000, 0}) = 0
capset(0x19980330, 0, {CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH|CAP_NET_RAW,
CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH|CAP_NET_RAW, 0}) = -1 EPERM (Operation not
permitted)
write(2, "Could not set capabilities: Oper"..., 52) = 52
exit_group(1) = ?
Maybe this is a Debian kernel issue. I haven't ever look into what
capabilities even are.
David
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