Ethereal under Mac OS X

If you install Ethereal (Networkanalyzer) with fink, and after starting X11 you would like to use ethereal as root - then you need to setup the DISPLAY variable for X:

put this in your ~/.bash_profile:

if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]]; then
export DISPLAY=:0.0
fi

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