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
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preferences | Settings from the | /etc/ethereal.conf, |
| %ETHEREAL%\ethereal.conf, | ||
| Preferences dialog | $HOME/.ethereal/ | %APPDATA%\Ethereal\preferences | |||
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recent | Recent GUI | set- | $HOME/.ethereal/ | %APPDATA%\Ethereal\recent | ||
| tings | (e.g. recent | recent |
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cfilters | Capture filters. | $HOME/.ethereal/ | %ETHEREAL%\cfilters, | |||
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| %APPDATA%\Ethereal\cfilters |
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dfilters | Display filters. | $HOME/.ethereal/ | %ETHEREAL%\dfilters, | |||
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| %APPDATA%\Ethereal\dfilters |
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colorfilters | Coloring rules. | $HOME/.ethereal/ | %ETHEREAL%\colorfilters, | |||
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| %APPDATA%\Ethereal\colorfilters |
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dis- | Disabled proto- | $HOME/.ethereal/ | %ETHEREAL%\disabled_protos, | |||
abled_protos | cols. |
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| %APPDATA%\Ethereal\disabled_protos |
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ethers | Ethernet name res- | /etc/ethers, |
| %ETHEREAL%\ethers, | ||
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| $HOME/.ethereal/ | %APPDATA%\Ethereal\ethers | ||
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manuf | Ethernet name res- | /etc/manuf |
| %ETHEREAL%\manuf | ||
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hosts | IPv4 | and | IPv6 | $HOME/.ethereal/ | %APPDATA%\hosts | |
| name resolution. | hosts |
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ipxnets | IPX name resolu- | $HOME/.ethereal/ | %ETHEREAL%\ipxnets | |||
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plugins | Plugin directories. | / |
| %ETHEREAL%\plugins\<version>, | ||
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| %APPDATA%\Ethereal\plugins |
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| al/ |
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