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I am trying to run a wireshark capture as a daemon. I found this init.d script.

http://new.networkprotocolspecialists.com/downloads/tsharkd

it works to start dumpcap, but when I try to use

sudo /etc/init.d/tsharkd stop

I get the following:

/etc/init.d/tsharkd: 44: /etc/init.d/tsharkd: Stopping WireShark packet capture program: dumpcap: not found

The script, tsharkd is has owner and group as root and permissions set as -rwxr-xr-x

If I run the following line (the stop command for the init.d script) manually without sudo, I get the same error

/sbin/start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 18 --quiet --user root --group root --exec  /usr/bin/dumpcap >/dev/null && result="running." && exitval=0

If I run the line above with sudo it works. I have even tried editing visudo but still no luck. I also tried adding sudo to the line in the script. Nothing seems to work.

Bob
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The script is broken, it has an unneeded line break at the section:

 stop)
 echo -n
 "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"

It should be 

 stop)
 echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
falconer
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