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 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 Will.