Lucent Technologies Ethereal - Manual (Page 170)

Appendix A. Configuration (and
other) Files and Folders
Ethereal uses a number of files and folders while it is running. Some of these reside in the personal
configuration folder and are used to maintain information between runs of Ethereal, while some of
them are maintained in system areas.
Tip
A list of the folders Ethereal actually uses can be found under the Folders tab in the
dialog box coming up, when you select About Ethereal from the Help menu.
The content format of the configuration files is the same on all platforms. However, to match the
different policies for unix and windows platforms, different folders for these files are used.
Table A.1. Configuration files and folders overview
File/Folder Description Unix/Linux
folders Windows folders
preferences Settings from the
Preferences dialog
box. /etc/ethereal.conf,
$HOME/.ethereal/
preferences %ETHEREAL%\ethereal.conf,
%APPDATA%\Ethereal\preferences
recent Recent GUI set-
tings (e.g. recent
files lists). $HOME/.ethereal/
recent %APPDATA%\Ethereal\recent
cfilters Capture filters. $HOME/.ethereal/
cfilters %ETHEREAL%\cfilters,
%APPDATA%\Ethereal\cfilters
dfilters Display filters. $HOME/.ethereal/
dfilters %ETHEREAL%\dfilters,
%APPDATA%\Ethereal\dfilters
colorfilters Coloring rules. $HOME/.ethereal/
colorfilters %ETHEREAL%\colorfilters,
%APPDATA%\Ethereal\colorfilters
dis-
abled_protos Disabled proto-
cols.
$HOME/.ethereal/
disabled_protos %ETHEREAL%\disabled_protos,
%APPDATA%\Ethereal\disabled_protos
ethers Ethernet name res-
olution. /etc/ethers,
$HOME/.ethereal/
ethers %ETHEREAL%\ethers,
%APPDATA%\Ethereal\ethers
manuf Ethernet name res-
olution. /etc/manuf %ETHEREAL%\manuf
hosts IPv4 and IPv6
name resolution.
$HOME/.ethereal/
hosts %APPDATA%\hosts
ipxnets IPX name resolu-
tion. $HOME/.ethereal/
ipxnets %ETHEREAL%\ipxnets
plugins Plugin directories. /
usr/
share/ethere-
al/plugins,
/
usr/loc-
al/
share/ethere-
al/plugins,
$HOME/.ethereal/
plugins
%ETHEREAL%\plugins\<version>,
%APPDATA%\Ethereal\plugins
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