So I moved everything to /tmp and played with perms and it started working,
thanks much.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Yuri Francalacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Try to start ntop with -P /tmp (for example).
> It is something related to permission on the directory where you save
> files.
> Yuri
>
> decon brody wrote, On 19/08/2008 0.43:
> > Hi gang, I googled for this but couldn't find the answer.
> >
> > I installed ntop like this:
> >
> > yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
> > yum install rrdtool rrdtool-devel libpcap-devel gdbm-devel
> > svn co https://svn.ntop.org/svn/ntop/trunk/ntop
> > cd ntop
> > ./autogen.sh  --with-rrd-home=/usr
> > make
> > make install
> >
> > Then I started it up on my bridge interface like this
> > ntop -i br0 -d
> >
> > Everything starts up, I can visit localhost:3000, I can see pie charts
> > etc.  But this is in my logs (a lot)
> >
> > Aug 18 15:38:05 monitor ntop[5432]:   **WARNING** RRD:
> > rrd_update(/usr/local/var/ntop/rrd/interfaces/br0/throughput.rrd) error:
> > opening '/
> > usr/local/var/ntop/rrd/interfaces/br0/throughput.rrd': strerror_r
> > failed. sorry!
> > Aug 18 15:38:15 monitor ntop[5432]:   **WARNING** RRD:
> > rrd_update(/usr/local/var/ntop/rrd/interfaces/br0/throughput.rrd) error:
> > opening '/
> > usr/local/var/ntop/rrd/interfaces/br0/throughput.rrd': strerror_r
> > failed. sorry!
> > Aug 18 15:38:24 monitor ntop[5432]:   **ERROR** RRD: rrd_graph() call
> > failed, rc -1, mmaping file '/usr/local/var/ntop/rrd/interfaces/br0/
> > IP_MessengerBytes.rrd': strerror_r failed. sorry!
> > Aug 18 15:38:24 monitor ntop[5432]:   RRD: Failing file in
> > graphCounter() is
> > /usr/local/var/ntop/rrd/interfaces/br0/IP_MessengerBytes.rrd
> > Aug 18 15:38:24 monitor ntop[5432]:   **ERROR** RRD: rrd_graph() call
> > failed, rc -1, mmaping file '/usr/local/var/ntop/rrd/interfaces/br0/
> > IP_MessengerBytes.rrd': strerror_r failed. sorry!
> > Aug 18 15:38:24 monitor ntop[5432]:   RRD: Failing file in
> > graphSummary() is
> > /usr/local/var/ntop/rrd/interfaces/br0/IP_MessengerBytes.rrd
> > Aug 18 15:38:25 monitor ntop[5432]:   **WARNING** RRD:
> > rrd_update(/usr/local/var/ntop/rrd/interfaces/br0/throughput.rrd) error:
> > opening '/
> > usr/local/var/ntop/rrd/interfaces/br0/throughput.rrd': strerror_r
> > failed. sorry!
> > Aug 18 15:38:35 monitor ntop[5432]:   **WARNING** RRD:
> > rrd_update(/usr/local/var/ntop/rrd/interfaces/br0/throughput.rrd) error:
> > opening '/
> > usr/local/var/ntop/rrd/interfaces/br0/throughput.rrd': strerror_r
> > failed. sorry!
> >
> > I start ntop as root but I have /usr/local.var/ntop owned by
> > apache:apache  For some reason the rrd directory wasn't created for me,
> > so I manually created it, I also then created flows/ graphics/
> > interfaces/ AND I tried interfaces/br0/throughput.rrd.  Of course to no
> > avail.
> >
> > I've installed every rrd packacge I can find:
> >
> > collectd-rrdtool.i386                    4.3.3-3.fc9
> > installed
> > perl-RRD-Simple.noarch                   1.43-3.fc9
> > installed
> > rrdtool.i386                             1.3.0-1.fc9
> > installed
> > rrdtool-devel.i386                       1.3.0-1.fc9
> > installed
> > rrdtool-doc.i386                         1.3.0-1.fc9
> > installed
> > rrdtool-perl.i386                        1.3.0-1.fc9
> > installed
> > rrdtool-php.i386                         1.3.0-1.fc9
> > installed
> > rrdtool-python.i386                      1.3.0-1.fc9
> > installed
> > rrdtool-ruby.i386                        1.3.0-1.fc9
> > installed
> > rrdtool-tcl.i386                         1.3.0-1.fc9
> > installed
> >
> >
> > Any ideas?  Thanks!  :)
> >
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