airodump-ng fopen failed: No such file or directory

Question

I was trying to test a wpa wifi network. I wrote the following command

airodump-ng -c 11 --bssid 34:5B:34:7B:AC:66 -w /root/Desktop/ mon2

Note: The BSSID I have posted here is wrong for of course reasons. And I get the following errors:

fopen failed: No such file or directory
Could not create "/root/Desktop/-01.csv"

I can clearly see that is there is C language fopen error. Its trying create a csv file. I think mainly for maintaining the passowords it tests. I don't know what is this csv files for just made a guess.

I tried to create a simple .csv file with C Program using fopen and the csv file got created. So, there is not problem with C env is guess.

I need help how do I fix this error?

Solution

The -w parameter of airodump-ng is for specifying a file prefix, not a folder.

The right command would be:

airodump-ng -c 11 --bssid 34:5B:34:7B:AC:66 -w /root/Desktop/capture_file mon2

This will create a file on this path:

/root/Desktop/capture_file-01.csv

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Quote from the airodump-ng man page:

-w , --write Is the dump file prefix to use. If this option is not given, it will only show data on the screen.

Comments

[mikewhatever]

-w expects a file prefix, not a directory path, see man airodump-ng for details.

[Everything123 Channel]

so what's the fix? @mikewhatever

[Everything123 Channel]

I don't know much I used this blogpost lewiscomputerhowto.blogspot.in/2014/06/…

[user3629249]

please, either post the code with the problem or remove the c tag.

[Everything123 Channel]

@user3629249 Removed

[user3629249]

the error message indicates that no file name has been given for the output file. if the output file is expected to be named mon2-01.csv then the space between the path and file name needs to be removed. Otherwise, supply a valid filename as part of the path parameter