simple run ntop manually and see log... for example my problem: tomfi# ntop Mon May 21 19:27:20 2007 ntop will be started as user nobody Mon May 21 19:27:20 2007 ntop v.3.0 SourceForge .tgz MT (SSL) Mon May 21 19:27:20 2007 Configured on Jan 30 2005 22:53:02, built on Jan 30 2005 22:53:23. Mon May 21 19:27:20 2007 Copyright 1998-2004 by Luca Deri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon May 21 19:27:20 2007 Get the freshest ntop from http://www.ntop.org/ Mon May 21 19:27:20 2007 Initializing ntop Mon May 21 19:27:20 2007 Checking eth0 for additional devices Mon May 21 19:27:20 2007 Resetting traffic statistics for device eth0 Mon May 21 19:27:20 2007 DLT: Device 0 [eth0] is 1, mtu 1514, header 14 Mon May 21 19:27:20 2007 Initializing gdbm databases Mon May 21 19:27:20 2007 Now running as requested user 'nobody' (65534:65534) Mon May 21 19:27:20 2007 **FATAL_ERROR** ....open of /var/lib/ntop/prefsCache.db failed: File open error Mon May 21 19:27:20 2007 1. Is another instance of ntop running? Mon May 21 19:27:20 2007 2. Make sure that the use you specified can write in the target directory tomfi# ls -ls /var/lib/ntop/prefsCache.db 14 -rw-r--r-- 1 ntop ntop 12849 May 2 2006 /var/lib/ntop/prefsCache.db
the row with FATAL_ERROR say something about error opening dbfile .. so I looked on this file, and I see that file owner is ntop:ntop ... but ntop runs as user 'nobody'(it is writed on row before the FATAL_ERROR)... so there is my problem ... for example :) jpff napsal(a): > ...I realise this may be peripheral to firewalls, but I run a Debian > firewall, which also provides a few other services. For a long time i > also ran ntop on it to see what was happening. Since updating to 4.0 > it seems that ntop is running but there is no data being collected. > What simple thing have I overlooked? > ==John ffitch > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
