On windows you have at (on the command line) and the scheduled tasks (from the control panel).
Have a nice day GV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guy Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Community support list for Wireshark" <wireshark-users@wireshark.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:20 AM Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Running wireshark as a scheduled task? > DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > >> Use tshark instead (http://www.wireshark.org/docs/man-pages/tshark.html). >> >> Try >> -aduration:10800 (3 hours in seconds) >> >> For writing the results to a file, you can either redirect the output >> with '>' for decoded stuff or just use '-w' to write it out raw so you >> can open it with Wireshark later. > > ...and note that neither Wireshark nor TShark themselves have any > mechanism for *starting* them at a specified time. > > However, the OS on which you're running it might, e.g. cron or at on > UN*Xes. I think there's some equivalent on Windows NT ("NT" meaning NT > 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2K3, Vista, and Server 2K8), but I don't know what > it is offhand. > _______________________________________________ > Wireshark-users mailing list > Wireshark-users@wireshark.org > http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list Wireshark-users@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users