Hi Will, Will McDonald wrote: > On 01/02/06, WipeOut <wipe_out at users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >>I have a CentOS 4 server at home where we store all our data, I wanted >>to get some idea of the amount of traffic going into and out of the >>server by protocol so I installed IPtraf.. >> >>When I run it from an ssh session it looks fine but when I run it >>directly on the server console its doesn't look right at all.. It >>doesn't seem to layout correctly.. >> >>Is there something I need to do differently on the console to run it? > > > It's probably a terminal type thing. I've noticed in Putty instead of > getting vertical and horizontal "bars" in the curses interface I get > xxxxxx and qqqqqqq with l-m-k-j in the corners. > > Running from the console actually displays properly for me. > > There are a bunch of various rendering options within Putty to deal > with this I think. > > Try each of the following from your terminal/console... > > export TERM=vt100; iptraf > export TERM=linux; iptraf > export TERM=xterm; iptraf > Tried all three, no change, still comes out a bit strange.. > You can also increase your console resolution (with care). > > Getting a Hi-Res Console > > 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 > 256 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307 > 32k 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319 > 64k 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A > 16M 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B > > 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 > 256 769 771 773 775 > 32k 784 787 790 793 > 64k 785 788 791 794 > 16M 786 789 792 795 > > Edit your grub or lilo config and add vga=NNN where NNN is either the > hex or decimal equivalent to your desired resolution from the tables > above. > > title White Box Enterprise Linux hi-res (2.6.9-5.0.5.EL) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL ro root=/dev/Vg00/Lv00 vga=773 > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL.img > Changing the resolution on the console also didn't make any difference but is handy to know.. :) Would it make any difference that the IPtraf that was installed came from DAG's yum repo and not the CentOS repo? Thanks.