Re: maybe out of topic

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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.






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