Miguel A. Velasco wrote:
> Hi all, thanks very much for your comments Burton Strauss III. Folowwing
> your instrucctions I´ve tried the next options in /etc/ntop.conf, all
> unsuccesfully:
>
>
The following is a working ntop.conf file:
-u ntop
-P /usr/local/share/ntop
-Q /var/log/ntop
-m 192.168.160.0/255.255.255.0
-i eth0
Regards,
Massimo
> Case 1:
> --user=ntop
> --db-file-path=/var/ntop
> --interface=eth0,eth1,tun0
> --use-syslog=local1
> --http-server=3200
> --https-server=3203
> --daemon
>
> Case 2
> --user=ntop
> --db-file-path=/var/ntop
> --interface=eth0,eth1,tun0
> --access-log-file=/var/log/ntop.log
> --http-server=3200
> --https-server=3203
>
> Case 3:
> -u=ntop
> -i=eth0,eth1,tun0
> -a=/var/log/ntop.log
> -w=3200
> -W=3203
>
> In all cases I have obtained a "FATAL ERROR: Unrecognized/unprocessed
> ntop options..." with the options specified in /etc/ntop.conf
>
> Maybe I didn´t understand you correctly ....
> Thanks all again for your time.
> Miguel A. Velasco
>
>
> Burton Strauss III escribió:
>
>> I think - it's been a while since I read that part of the code - that you
>> need to use =s on long options.
>>
>> So it's either
>>
>> -u ntop
>> --user=ntop
>>
>> Not
>>
>> --user ntop
>>
>> Try it consistently between the file and the command line and let me know...
>>
>
>
>
>> -----Burton
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
>> Miguel A. Velasco
>> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 5:05 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [Ntop] ntop starting error reading ntop.conf
>>
>> Hi all, I´m running ntop-3.3.6-1.el5.rf (installed with $yum install
>> ntop) in a CentOS release 5.2.
>>
>> When I execute "$service ntop start" it returns de following error:
>>
>> Starting ntop: Processing file /etc/ntop.conf for parameters...
>> Mon Oct 6 11:31:25 2008 NOTE: Interface merge enabled by default
>> Mon Oct 6 11:31:25 2008 Initializing gdbm databases
>> FATAL ERROR: Unrecognized/unprocessed ntop options...
>> , --user ntop, ,
>> --db-file-path /var/ntop, , --interface eth0,eth1, , ,
>> --use-syslog=local1, , , --http-server 3200, , --https-server
>> 3203, , , , --daemon,
>>
>> run ntop --help for usage information
>>
>> Common problems:
>> -B "filter expressions" (quotes are required)
>> --use-syslog=facilty (the = is required)
>>
>> My /etc/ntop.conf config is:
>>
>> ### Sets the user that ntop runs as.
>> ### NOTE: This should not be root unless you really understand the
>> security risks.
>> --user ntop
>>
>> ### Sets the directory that ntop runs from.
>> --db-file-path /var/ntop
>>
>> ### Interface(s) that ntop will capture on (default: eth0)
>> --interface eth0,eth1
>>
>> ### Configures ntop not to trust MAC addrs. This is used when port
>> mirroring or SPAN
>> #--no-mac
>>
>> ### Logging messages to syslog (instead of the console):
>> ### NOTE: To log to a specific facility, use --use-syslog=local3
>> ### NOTE: The = is REQUIRED and no spaces are permitted.
>> --use-syslog=local1
>>
>> ### Tells ntop to track only local hosts as specified by the
>> #--local-subnets option
>> #--track-local-hosts
>>
>> ### Sets the port that the HTTP webserver listens on
>> ### NOTE: --http-server 3000 is the default
>> --http-server 3200
>>
>> ### Sets the port that the optional HTTPS webserver listens on
>> --https-server 3203
>>
>> ### Sets the networks that ntop should consider as local.
>> ### NOTE: Uses dotted decimal and CIDR notation. Example: ###192.168.0.0/24
>> ### The addresses of the interfaces are always local and don't
>> need to be specified.
>> #--local-subnets xx.xx.xx.xx/yy
>>
>> ### Sets the domain. ntop should be able to determine this automatically.
>> #--domain mydomain.com
>>
>> ### Sets program to run as a daemon
>> ### NOTE: For more than casual use, you probably want this.
>> --daemon
>>
>> But if I execute at the command line the following:
>> $ntop -w 3200 -W 3203 -i eth0,eth1 -d -L -a /var/log/ntop.log -u ntop
>>
>> It works fine!
>>
>> I have the local1 facility in my /etc/sylog.conf like follows:
>> local1.* /var/log/ntop.log
>>
>> I would be very pleasant if anyone could tell me something to try in my
>> configuration.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Miguel A.Velasco
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