You would have the same problem with apt-get... depends on who built 
the binary.  Unless there is something about apt-get I don't know 
about.

Shannon

On Feb 12, 2004, at 10:33 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> gotcha......
>
> I'll follow your suggestions but I'm also considering installing from 
> source.  I booted up with the knoppix-std distro and ntop is 
> there.....its collecting data as I type this.  I'm also thinking about 
> trashing RedHat and going with Debian so that I can simply do a 
> apt-get....suppose I should check to see that ntop is available first 
> though!! <G>
>
> Cleve
>>
>> From: Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: 2004/02/12 Thu AM 11:09:02 EST
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] ntop installation weirdness
>>
>>
>> On Feb 12, 2004, at 8:58 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> just installed ntop on RH9.0
>>> had to also install:
>>> perl(Crypt::DES)
>>> perl(Net::SNMP)
>>> rrdtool-1.0.41-1.8.0.ntop.i386.rpm
>>> ntop-2.2-0.i386.rpm
>>>
>>> at any rate....you have to specify the admin password during the 
>>> first
>>> run.....installation instructions refer to a docs/1STRUN directory 
>>> and
>>> document but I'll be damned if I can find it.  Anyway, I started ntop
>>> with this:
>>
>> Also, since you installed from an RPM rather than source, some file
>> locations and/or defaults may be different.  Depends on who made the
>> RPM file.
>>
>> Shannon
>>
>>>
>>> ntop --set-admin-password=int3rn3t
>>>
>>> but I get back:
>>>
>>> Wait please: ntop is coming up...
>>> 11/Feb/2004 14:06:09 Initializing gdbm databases
>>> 11/Feb/2004 14:06:09 **FATAL_ERROR** ....open of
>>> /var/ntop/addressQueue.db faile
>>> d: File open error
>>> 11/Feb/2004 14:06:09 **FATAL_ERROR** Possible solution: please use 
>>> '-P
>>> <director
>>> y>'
>>>
>>> but there is not even an "ntop" directory under /var
>>>
>>> does anyone have any bright ideas????
>>> thanks,
>>> Cleve
>>>
>>>
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