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
Common problems:
-B "filter expressions" (quotes are required)
--use-syslog=facilty (the = is required)
[FAILED]
ooops! near as I can tell, tis getting those options from
/etc/ntop.conf and I've done a bit of futzzing in there to try and sort
it out but to no avail.
before I go and break things totally, what did I do wrong??
if I run ntop --daemon from the command prompt, it seems to work fine.
# ntop @/etc/ntop.conf --daemon
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 NOTE: Interface merge enabled by default
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Initializing gdbm databases
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 ntop v.3.3.8 (Dag Apt RPM Repository)
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Configured on Oct 6 2008 1:40:18, built on
Oct 6 2008 01:41:15.
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Copyright 1998-2007 by Luca Deri <deri at ntop.org>
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Get the freshest ntop from http://www.ntop.org/
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 NOTE: ntop is running from 'ntop'
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 NOTE: (but see warning on man page for the
--instance parameter)
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 NOTE: ntop libraries are in '/usr/lib'
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Initializing ntop
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 No patterns to load: protocol guessing disabled.
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Checking eth0 for additional devices
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Resetting traffic statistics for device eth0
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Initializing device eth0 (0)
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 DLT: Device 0 [eth0] is 1, mtu 1514, header 14
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Initializing gdbm databases
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: Loading MAC address table.
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: Checking for MAC address table file
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: File '/etc/ntop/specialMAC.txt.gz'
does not need to be reloaded
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: ntop continues ok
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: Checking for MAC address table file
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: File '/etc/ntop/oui.txt.gz' does not
need to be reloaded
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 VENDOR: ntop continues ok
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Fingerprint: Loading signature file
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Fingerprint: Checking for Fingerprint file... file
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Fingerprint: Loading file
'/etc/ntop/etter.finger.os.gz'
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 Fingerprint: ...loaded 0 records
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 INIT: Parent process is exiting (this is normal)
Tue Nov 25 00:07:35 2008 INIT: Bye bye: I'm becoming a daemon...