Sounds like great advice....I'll keep you posted on the progress.
> > From: will hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/03/04 Thu AM 08:21:53 EST > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] question about installing stuff > > On 2004.03.04 05:25 Cleve Allison wrote: > > > Doug, > > Actually, I used the knoppix-installer to lay down a harddrive image of > > the knoppix 3.3 live-cd......like Libranet it is a mixture. Then I did > > an apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. > > I can actually do an apt-get install flowscan to install the package but > > I've been downloading all the .tar.gz files and doing the whole > > ./configure, make, make install thing. flowscan uses a patched version > > of cflowd which in turn uses arts++ > > Flowscan is like MRTG on steroids, and it also uses rrdtools to make > > graphs, etc...........rather than simply showing the volume of traffic > > going in and out of the various interfaces of a device via snmp mib > > info, flowscan uses the Cisco NetFlow info along with snmp, etc to > > provide a more detailed graph of traffic by protocol, service, etc > > Very useful, but so far its been daunting to install and > > configure.......the documentation is not for the newbie and this is the > > first real enterprise level production deployment of a linux based > > application that I am working on. I've been local support for linux > > boxes/products before but these were vendor products. > > Last night I wiped everything clean and started fresh..........first > > thing I noticed was that arts++ didn't make correctly.....Knoppix has > > GNU Make 3.8.0 and I think there is an issue with the arts++ software > > not having flex headers or .hh or somethingorother.....if that makes any > > sense. Today I am going to try an older version of arts++.....and there > > is also a reference by the author of flowscan that he had to edit some > > file to include a directory where his flex headers were actually > > located???? > > Does this sound like a lesson in futility? I'm definitely over my head > > with this but I have to admit that I am slowly, painfully learning a lot. > > cleve > > > > Yikes! Mixing "first" with hot software, that's got to be tough. > > Starting from scratch sounds like a good idea. Do you need to start from > Knoppix? I'd want as stripped down a box as I could get to learn about a new > package like this and I'd want to start with the deb pacage. The debpackage > is going to have captured a lot of configuration fiddling and dependency > resolution. A quick look at the packages that flowscan depends on runs into > mysqlclient10, a fork for working with non-gpl software. If you are working > from tarballs, you might have missed that and other issues. Knoppix is an > awsome workstation, but it might be the wrong place to start for utilities > like flowscan. That you are just learning about a package is double the > reason to run the package and nothing but the package on that box. For > comfort, I would set up another box with Knoppix to shell into the package > box. > > Thanks for mentioning what looks like a very nice tool. Good luck with it > and let us all know how it turns out. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
