Re: socket: Operation not permitted

Guy Harris <[email protected]> Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:09:15 -0700
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- Rachid - wrote:

> My name is rachid. Iam from holland and we want to use tethereal for a 
> company.When we want to try to start the Tethereal on my linux shell 
> prompt (Suse), we get a error. I have the root privileges. The error 
> says: tethereal: the capture session could not be initiated (socket: 
> Operation not permitted).

What happens if you try to use tcpdump?