[CentOS] ntop from rpmforge

2008/11/25 John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

> I installed ntop on a centos5.2 system (which got all yum updates a few
> days ago)...
>
>   # rpm -q ntop rrdtool
>   ntop-3.3.8-1.el5.rf
>   rrdtool-1.2.28-1.el5.rf
>
> went through the password configuration
>
> when I start it, its erroring.
>
> # service ntop start
> Starting ntop:    Processing file /etc/ntop.conf for parameters...
> Mon Nov 24 23:56:36 2008  NOTE: Interface merge enabled by default
> Mon Nov 24 23:56:36 2008  Initializing gdbm databases
> FATAL ERROR: Unrecognized/unprocessed ntop options...
>                                                --user ntop,
> --db-file-path /var/ntop,
>
> run ntop --help for usage information
>
>

Hi

There is an error in the ntop startup file.

If you edit:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/ntop

and find the line:

daemon $prog -d -L @/etc/ntop.conf

(This is in the "start ()" section)

Replace with the line:

daemon $prog @/etc/ntop.conf -d -L

i.e. The config file bit needs to be before the parameters.

It should then work when you do "service ntop start".

mjh
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