I've got the code fixed - if you're root, it's /var/run if not it goes into the -P directory.
So as part of the fixup of /etc/init.d/ntop, now you know what to look for. -----Burton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of pc Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 7:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Ntop-dev] **WARNING** INIT: Unable to create pid file (/var/run/ntop.pid) /etc/init.d/functions use the pid file during shutdown to kill it off, but 'most' distributions don't require it and alternately will look for the process in memory if the pid file is missing. Tim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Burton M. Strauss III Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 6:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Ntop-dev] **WARNING** INIT: Unable to create pid file (/var/run/ntop.pid) Yeah, the pid file creation needs to be moved earlier - before ntop sheds privledges. Unfortunately, you haven't become the daemon yet, so you don't actually have the right PID even. Nothing actually uses the pid file (it would be in the script, e.g. /etc/init.d/ntop) so the right thing to do is (for non-root users) to move the file into the ntop directory, e.g. /usr/share/ntop or whatever -P specifies. -----Burton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Markus Rehbach Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 12:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ntop-dev] **WARNING** INIT: Unable to create pid file (/var/run/ntop.pid) Hi all, i'm using the cvs version on a modified SuSE 8.0 and the permissions for the /var/run folder are 4 drwxr-xr-x 9 root uucp 4096 Sep 3 18:26 run Could start ntop as root to avoid the warning (not a good idea i think) or could change the permissions on the folder. Not a good idea, too? I do not know other distributions and the permissions on that folder. Cheers Markus _______________________________________________ Ntop-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev _______________________________________________ Ntop-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev _______________________________________________ Ntop-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev _______________________________________________ Ntop-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev
