NO NO NO
Socket '0' is legal in that it's a legal file descriptor, but it does NOT work as a
valid descriptor on many OSes (it's a dummy).
You should be getting a valid fd - try enabling the workaround - line from
configureextra/FREEBSD:
CPPFLAGS="-DHAVE_FILEDESCRIPTORBUG ${CPPFLAGS}"
into configureextra/LINUXredhat9
-----Burton
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "B. Loic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 09:26:32 +0200
>You're going to hate me guys, for (still) reporting problems so close to a
>release.
>
>On this morning's CVS, I can't get daemon mode to work :
>Sep 9 09:05:41 loic ntop[15981]: [report:47] Device 0.
>eth0 (active)
>Sep 9 09:05:41 loic ntop[15981]: [report:94] Note: Reporting device initally
>set to 0 [eth0]
>Sep 9 09:05:41 loic ntop[15981]: [webInterface:4775] WEB: Initializing web
>server
>Sep 9 09:05:41 loic ntop[15981]: [webInterface:4781] WEB: Initializing tcp/ip
>socket connections for web server
>Sep 9 09:05:41 loic ntop[15981]: [webInterface:4615] Initializing socket, port
>10999, address (any)
>Sep 9 09:05:41 loic ntop[15981]: [webInterface:4684] **FATAL_ERROR** WEB:
>Unable to create a new socket - returned 0, error is 'Success'(0)
>Sep 9 09:05:41 loic kernel: device eth0 left promiscuous mode
>
>Looks like a previous issue under FreeBSD (except that it's not the same
>'error'), IIRC, but I am under RH9 (trace level 5 enabled)...
>
>A few days ago, I had the same problem but forgot to report it (found unfinished
>mail in my drafts box...) :
>Sep 3 10:11:26 bridgetest ntop[4177]: [main:1164] Starting web server
>Sep 3 10:11:26 bridgetest ntop[4177]: [webInterface:4576] WEB: Initializing
>Sep 3 10:11:26 bridgetest ntop[4177]: [webInterface:4619] Note: Reporting
>device set to 0 [eth0]
>Sep 3 10:11:26 bridgetest ntop[4177]: [webInterface:4650] **FATAL_ERROR** WEB:
>Unable to create a new socket (error 17: 'File exists')
>
>Each time, running as a regular task (ntop @/etc/ntop.conf) or as a background
>task (ntop @/etc/ntop.conf &) works, but daemon mode (ntop @/etc/ntop.conf -d)
>fails...
>
>Looking at today's code, what about the attached patch ? Works for me... ;-)
>
>"Burton M. Strauss III" a �crit :
>
>> 5) There are a couple of 'graph' and 'reporting' problems reported by B.Loic
>> around the 25th of August
>> - Strange interface traffic pie chart with --no-interface-merge option
>> - OSPF traffic reported as "Other IP" in the TCP/UDP page
>> - colors in ntop unicast/broadcast/multicast graph
>
>On this later issue, I noticed that :
> - it can happen on ALL pie chart graphs, wherever they are in ntop (does it
>too in the protocols distribution on any host info page)
> - does it only when one of the values is very small compared to the others
>
>Lo�c
>
>
>
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