dofile not loading when path is specified

Question

Hi,

I have written a dissector and placed it in /home/me

I edited init.lua with dofile("/home/me/mydissector.lua") when i run wireshark i get Lua: Error During Loading

If i cd /home/me and run wireshak the dissector is loaded properly.

I am running Wireshark 1.4.1 & Lua 5.1 on CentOS 5.6 as root.

Thanks

Answer 1

just to check, if you have seen 'disable potentialy harmful lua functions when running superuser' comment in the init.lua?

there's a special check for running under root that disables dofile and other os related libraries.

if running_superuser then
    local disabled_lib = {}
    setmetatable(disabled_lib,{ __index = function() error("this package has been disabled") end } );
dofile = function() error(&quot;dofile has been disabled&quot;) end

…
end

If you absolutely need to run wireshark as root then you can temporarly disable that check by adding say ‘0 and’ to if condition:

if 0 and running_superuser then
local disabled_lib = {}
…