> Go back further - to the beginning of the log - and see if
> there are messages about the user id switch.  You may have
> to run ntop in console mode (i.e. w/o the daemon and
> syslog option) to see all the messages (some of the very
> early ones get written via fprintf() and may be in dmesg
> or lost).
> 
> The .db files which are opened before ntop sheds root
> privileges (i.e. anything before the libpcap
> pcap_open_live() call) are as root.  Databases which are
> recreated (unlink + create) will have the then-current
> ownership, root.
> 
> -----Burton 

Burton,

Thanks for the assistance. I can't get ntop to run in debug
mode at all. It slides into daemon mode regardless of the -K
option. Using --enable-debug causes it to spit out all help
options. The logs do show it switching to user ntop. They
also show some AS-list.txt file is missing.

I used the ntop-3.1-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm to install with.
I've just removed the rpm using -e and am now downloading
the cvs. I'll let you know if I'm still having problems
after installing it from cvs.

Thanks for your help.

=========================
Kevin W. Gagel
Network Administrator
Information Technology Services
(250) 561-5848 local 448


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