Error on linux mint:can't start app

deiv / driftnet

Driftnet watches network traffic, and picks out and displays JPEG and GIF images for display

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Closed eddisch closed 3 years ago

eddisch commented 3 years ago

this error I see: Sun Jul 11 13:02:02 2021 - error: pcap_activate: You don't have permission to capture on that device

how to fix that?

deiv commented 3 years ago

Hi,

Driftnet uses libpcap to capture live traffic, so puttin cap on tcpdump will not work (maybe on itself?).

You can run driftnet as root, with sudo (later you can drop privileges to another user with -z switch, if running as non root is a must for you).