I'm back in the US and my ntop machine is in NL.  The plugin  is
saving flows wherever u set it up to.  I have no idea.  If you can
point me to guidance on the data structure I will bne haapy to report
its contents as soon as I can access the box.

On 2/5/09, Luca Deri <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Feb 5, 2009, at 8:24 PM, Walt Henley wrote:
>
>> Bith.  Seems like the mysqls were the issue
>
> You mean ntop is saving flows in MySQL?
>
> Luca
>
>>
>>
>> On 2/5/09, Luca Deri <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Walt
>>> what's the DB for you? the .db files or the .rrd files?
>>>
>>> Thanks Luca
>>>
>>> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 08:51:07 -0500, Walt Henley
>>> <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I changed the time on my server and it began to crÀsh.  I blew away
>>>> the entire database and it seemed to run OK after that.  Could have
>>>> been corruption I guess.  It was definitely associated with the time
>>>> change though.
>>>>
>>>> On 2/5/09, Luca Deri <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi all
>>>>> this problem is funny. In fact I can't see how the
>>>>> updateASTraffic()
>>>>> function can crash ntop. Instead RRDs always need to go 'forward'
>>>>> so
>>>>> if NTP decides that your box time needs to go backwards, some RRD
>>>>> updates will fail for some time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you tell me again/precisely how to crash ntop with time
>>>>> shifting?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Luca
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 5, 2009, at 3:12 AM, Rob Shupe wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks, will do. A few questions though-- I didn't make any
>>>>>> major time
>>>>>> changes on the server, but it *is* set to stay sync'd to an NTP
>>>>>> server.
>>>>>> If that synchronization adjusts the time even slightly (maybe a
>>>>>> second
>>>>>> or two), will it still cause this problem? In other words, can I
>>>>>> run
>>>>>> nTop on a server that is staying sync'd via NTP, or will I have to
>>>>>> turn
>>>>>> NTP off to prevent this problem? Additionally, will this problem
>>>>>> always
>>>>>> occur with changes like daylight saving time? What if I need to
>>>>>> adjust
>>>>>> the time for some reason, can I just stop nTop, adjust time and
>>>>>> restart,
>>>>>> or will the problem still occur? Sorry for all the questions, just
>>>>>> trying to understand how this works better to prevent the problem
>>>>>> going
>>>>>> forward. Thanks again for your help!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Walt Henley wrote:
>>>>>>> If you change the time on the box, this happens.  Delete your RRD
>>>>>>> directory under /usr/ntop/lib and the dtatbases in the lib
>>>>>>> directory
>>>>>>> and try again.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 2/4/09, Rob Shupe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> (note—I'm sending this again from a different address, my other
>>>>>>>> one doesn't
>>>>>>>> seem to get through. Apologies if this double-posts somehow)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've been running nTop 3.3.9 on a CentOS 5 box, and it ran quite
>>>>>>>> well for
>>>>>>>> about a week or two. However, now when I start it up, it'll run
>>>>>>>> for a few
>>>>>>>> minutes and then segfault and die. I ran nTop using the gdb
>>>>>>>> debugger, and
>>>>>>>> this was the output it gave at the time of the segfault:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [Switching to Thread -1314034800 (LWP 28839)]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> updateASTraffic (actualDeviceId=0, src_as_id=0, dst_as_id=27357,
>>>>>>>> octets=297)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   at pbuf.c:1011
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 1011        if(stats->as_id == src_as_id) {
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Does anyone have any ideas about what is happening based on this
>>>>>>>> output? If
>>>>>>>> additional information is needed, please let me know and I'll be
>>>>>>>> happy to
>>>>>>>> send it along. Thanks.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -Rob
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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