Gentoo takes wall clock time - it has to recompile each and every steenken line of code.
IIRC it was overnight on a 533Mhz celeron. But so what... As to the portage version, no clue. AFAIK they haven't been in contact with the ntop project. Recommend you download the cvs version and just follow the BUILD-NTOP.txt instructions. -----Burton ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Will C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:17:48 -0600 >Thanks for the tips. I am not familiar with Gentoo, but I checked their web >site, and the propaganda sounds really good. > > >This generates more questions: > > >You said it will take a long time to set up. Is this a difficult time, or >just time consuming? Is most of the time spent configuring Gentoo, or Ntop >under Gentoo? > >Who is in control of the Ntop "Portage" for Gentoo, and how much lag is >there when a new version of Ntop is released? > >Other than removing the fluff, does Gentoo offer anything special that RH >doesn't? > > >At the moment, Mac is out of the question. We are knee-deep in Microsoft. >In fact, we aren't running any Linux boxes aside from a Freesco router in >the lab. I have messed with Linux off and on in the past, and am fairly >comfortable getting around the basics, and following instructions for the >advanced topics, such as building larger packages. It sounds like RH9 might >be slightly better for me, but I might try Gentoo. > >- Will C. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Burton >M. Strauss III >Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 3:53 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [Ntop] Recommended stable OS platform for Ntop? > > >RH has issues... > >7.3 and 8 are no longer supported as of 31Dec2003 (tomorrow), so those may >not be appropriate either. > >RH9 is the only major major distro with the nptl library (Fedora 1 uses nptl >too). However, I do development ON RH9 so - aside from the occasional >warning re SIGIGN and child processes, it seems quite stable. > >I would use Linux - we do a lot less testing, etc. on FreeBSD, although >there are a couple of loyal users (Happy Holidays Stanley) who do a lot of >testing for us. Luca uses Mac OS X extensively, so that's an option. ntop >doesn't work under NetBSD nor OpenBSD, although Julian is close to making >O3.4 work... > >Since you really want a stripped down OS, ntop and no extraneous servers, >you might look into Gentoo - it will take a LONG time to get it set up, but >at the end of the process, ntop and the associated software will be the ONLY >thing running. > >-----Burton >_______________________________________________ >Ntop mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop > ____________________________________________________________ Free 20 MB Bannerless Domain Hosting, 1000 MB Data Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and more. Get It Now At Doteasy.com http://www.doteasy.com/et/ _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
