try to set -P option with a directory like /tmp note that if you have selinux enabled, you could have problems while creating files in certain directories. Yuri
Lay, James wrote, On 25/08/2008 18.00: > <lotta stuff snipped> > > Mon Aug 25 21:33:34 2008 THREADMGMT[t3048192912]: SIH: Idle host scan > thread running [p5513] Mon Aug 25 21:33:34 2008 > THREADMGMT[t3058682768]: SFP: Fingerprint scan thread running [p5513] > Mon Aug 25 21:33:34 2008 THREADMGMT[t2985253776]: NPS(1): Started > thread for network packet sniffing [eth1] Mon Aug 25 21:33:44 2008 > **ERROR** RRD: Disabled - unable to create base directory (err 13, > /usr/local/var/ntop/rrd) Mon Aug 25 21:34:01 2008 NOTE: -L | > --use-syslog=facility not specified, child processes will log to the > default (24). > Segmentation fault > > <more stuff snipped> > > Permissions, permissions, permissions. From my email a while ago: > > With ntop, when in doubt, always check permissions ;) Does user > "nobody" have permission to write to /usr/local/var/ntop? I've always > found it best to run ntop as root the first run, set the admin pass, > then go back and change permissions to match the user you plan to run > ntop as. I run ntop as "nobody", so here's my perms for > /usr/local/var/ntop: > > drwxr-xr-x 4 nobody nobody 4096 2008-05-21 18:39 /usr/local/var/ntop/ > > keep in mind that ntop also stores the html in /usr/local/share/ntop: > > drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody nobody 4096 2008-05-21 14:45 /usr/local/share/ntop/ > > Hope that helps. > > James > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop -- ############################################################ Yuri Francalacci E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.ntop.org/ *** Esse Quam Videri -- To Be, Rather Than To Seem *** ############################################################ _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
