If the set user to the -u value fails, ntop tries a couple of commonly available daemon names, nobody is one of those.
If the /var/ntop/rrd/graphics directory doesn't allow user 'nobody' to write to it, well, you will correctly see the error you are seeing. top or ps will show you what's running under what user id. I'm guessing there is a problem with the setup of your -u userid and ntop is falling over to nobody. There should be messages in your log at the very beginning of the run. Maybe you need to delete the -u userid and re-add it. -----Burton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin W. Gagel Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 5:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Ntop] What am I doing wrong... I'm getting various errors in my log regarding ntop and rrd. I'm launching ntop from the startup script that came with it. I've got the /etc/ntop.conf configured for the user "ntop" and the ntop user exists. I've chown'd the /var/ntop to ntop:ntop (recursivly) so all files are now owned by ntop. But I keep getting **ERROR** RRD: Disabled - unable to create directory (err 13, /var/ntop/rrd/graphics) The directory exists already. I did find that the startup script didn't seem to affect the user that ntop runs as. I have ntop.conf set with -u ntop but it seemed to be running with nobody. All of the files were owned by nobody:nobody so I changed them ntop. Any suggestions? ========================= Kevin W. Gagel Network Administrator Information Technology Services (250) 561-5848 local 448 ------------------------------------------------------------------- The College of New Caledonia, Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca Virus scanning is done on all incoming and outgoing email. Anti-spam information for CNC can be found at http://avas.cnc.bc.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
