I know how to access the preferences for wireshark from the preferences under edit menu . But I want to access the corresponding file to them. Based on my understanding for what is in the Wireshark User's Guide, It is supposed to be in /etc/wireshark.conf or $HOME/.wireshark/preferences. However, I'm not able to find it in there! My questions why I don't have the "preferences" file in any one of these two places? where can I find it instead? Note: I've installed Wireshark latest released version from source. Thanks. asked 19 Aug '14, 07:05  flora |
One Answer:
From the Wireshark application menu: Help | About Wireshark, select the Folders tab and you should see the paths to the Personal and Global configuration directories. answered 19 Aug '14, 07:34  grahamb ♦ showing 5 of 6 show 1 more comments |
This doesn't work for me too. I've got the error message: "Failed to open "/home/flora/.wireshark". Error when getting information for file '/home/flora/.wireshark': No such file or directory."
That would suggest the wireshark executable doesn't have the required privileges to open that directory.
Odd, and unfortunately now out of my realm of competence.
Thanks grahamb. It seems it does because When I do, ls -l /usr/local/bin/wireshark I get: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8687638 Aug 18 17:18 /usr/local/bin/wireshark
I only can find 'recent' and 'recent_common' but not 'preferences' file
Try modifying the preferences in Wireshark and clicking OK. That may then save a new preferences file.
What user are you running Wirshark as? What are the permissions on /home/flora/ and /home/flora/.wireshark/ ?
Thanks grahamb and JeffMorriss! the problem has solved itself somehow. I'm not really aware how as all what I did is rebuild wireshark again and I found the 'preferences' file along with 'recent' and 'recent_common' files.