Thomas can you please post your /etc/ntop.conf Thanks Luca
On Jun 18, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Thomas Harold wrote: > Found a possibly curious issue when I did a "yum update" on my CentOS > 5.1 box this past week. I'm not 100% sure what version I had prior (I > think it was "ntop-3.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64" from Jan 2008), but the new > version is "ntop-3.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64". > > The error lies in the init.d script used to start/stop ntop on > CentOS/RedHat systems. I believe this script is created by RedHat, > not > the ntop maintainers, but it possibly highlights an error in the new > version. > > For the older version, the following line works properly (this appears > in the start() method inside the /etc/init.d/ntop file): > > daemon $prog -d -L @/etc/ntop.conf > > But with the new version, the above line causes ntop to fail during > the > initial parse of the ntop.conf file as it complains about arguments. > But if we move the @ argument to the front of the list, the new > version > of ntop runs without issues. > > daemon $prog @/etc/ntop.conf -d -L > > The failure message when ntop dies during startup due to the @ option > being at the end of the list of arguments looks like: > > -------------------------------------------- > > # /etc/init.d/ntop start > Starting ntop: Processing file /etc/ntop.conf for parameters... > Tue Jun 17 10:57:03 2008 NOTE: Interface merge enabled by default > Tue Jun 17 10:57:03 2008 Initializing gdbm databases > FATAL ERROR: Unrecognized/unprocessed ntop options... > , --user ntop, , > --db-file-path /var/ntop, , --interface eth0, , , > --use-syslog, , , , , , , --daemon, > > run ntop --help for usage information > > Common problems: > -B "filter expressions" (quotes are required) > --use-syslog=facilty (the = is required) > > [FAILED] > > -------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
