Nik,
in case you want to start ntop as a daemon, you need to go into the
control panel -> services.

Use ntop /i for registering a service with the parameters you need.

Regards, Luca

Nik Barron wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have recently purchased the "registered" ntop Win32 build and I am
> trying to use it to analyse a TCPDump traffic log from a different
> system. I can get it to load the file with -f, but it immediately exits,
> e.g. 
>
>               C:\Program Files\Utils\ntop-Win32>ntop /c -f
> d:\temp\ta\eth2c0-pssl-generic.dmp              
>               Running ntop for Win32.
>
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  THREADMGMT[t3272]: ntop RUNSTATE:
> PREINIT(1)                              
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  THREADMGMT[t3272]: ntop RUNSTATE:
> INIT(2)                                 
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  NOTE: Interface merge enabled by
> default                                  
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  Initializing gdbm databases
>
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  ntop v.3.3.3
>
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  Configured on ntop-factory.ntop.org,
> built on 07/09/07 22:49:24.          
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  Copyright 1998-2007 by Luca Deri
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>                          
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  Get the freshest ntop from
> http://www.ntop.org/                           
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  Initializing ntop
>
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  Creating dummy interface, 'none'
>
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  Resetting traffic statistics for
> device d:/temp/ta/eth2c0-pssl-generic.dmp
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  Initializing device none (0)
>
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  DLT: Device 0 [none] is 1, mtu 1514,
> header 14                            
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  Initializing gdbm databases
>
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  VENDOR: Loading MAC address table.
>
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  VENDOR: Checking for MAC address table
> file                               
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  VENDOR: File '.\specialMAC.txt' does
> not need to be reloaded              
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  VENDOR: ntop continues ok
>
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  VENDOR: Checking for MAC address table
> file                               
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  VENDOR: File '.\oui.txt' does not need
> to be reloaded                     
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  VENDOR: ntop continues ok
>
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  Fingerprint: Loading signature file
>
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  Fingerprint: Checking for Fingerprint
> file... file                        
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  Fingerprint: Loading file
> '.\etter.finger.os'                             
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  Fingerprint: ...loaded 1697 records
>
>               9/24/07 10:03:45  THREADMGMT[t3272]: ntop RUNSTATE:
> SHUTDOWN(7) 
>
> The -d (daemon) option is not present on the Win32 build, and if I try
> to run it as a service (e.g. ntop /i) it fails to start.
>
> I guess I'm missing something obvious, has anybody successfully used
> ntop Win32 in this fashion? 
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Nick Barron
>
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