Thank you! I did not notice this part in the help.

Adam  

On Thursday, 18. July 2013 at 16:43, Alfredo Cardigliano wrote:

> Hi Adam
> nprobe changes the user by default, please have a look at the help:
>  
> nprobe -h | grep user
> --dont-drop-privileges | Do not drop privileges changing to user nobody
> --unprivileged-user <name> | Use <name> instead of nobody when dropping 
> privileges
>  
> Alfredo
>  
> On Jul 18, 2013, at 4:19 PM, Adam Stepanek <[email protected] 
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
>  
> > Hello,
> >  
> > I am trying to do some experimentations with nProbe as part of my 
> > university project but I'm failing to make nProbe dump the flows to the 
> > file. It starts up (nprobe -i lo -P /root/nprobe -V 9), then I locally send 
> > some flow records (through nfreplay - part of nfdump toolset) but when I 
> > try to quit the app (CTRL+C), it fails to create a directory. It says 
> > "Permission denied", however, I am working under root account so that can't 
> > be the case. At the end, it says "Flow file XY is now available" but 
> > there's not such a file. Here's the transcription:  
> >  
> > ...
> > 18/Jul/2013 15:42:10 [util.c:2586] WARNING: mkdir_p(/root/nprobe/2013): 
> > [error=13/Permission denied]
> > 18/Jul/2013 15:42:10 [util.c:2586] WARNING: mkdir_p(/root/nprobe/2013/07): 
> > [error=2/No such file or directory]
> > 18/Jul/2013 15:42:10 [util.c:2586] WARNING: 
> > mkdir_p(/root/nprobe/2013/07/18): [error=2/No such file or directory]
> > 18/Jul/2013 15:42:10 [util.c:2594] WARNING: 
> > mkdir_p(/root/nprobe/2013/07/18/15), error 2 No such file or directory
> > 18/Jul/2013 15:42:10 [engine.c:2688] WARNING: Unable to create file 
> > '/root/nprobe/2013/07/18/15/42.flows.temp' [errno=2]
> > 18/Jul/2013 15:42:11 [engine.c:2523] Flow file 
> > '/root/nprobe/2013/07/18/15/42.flows' is now available
> > …
> >  
> > I also tried to use the option --dont-nest-dump-dirs without any 
> > difference. Do you have any ideas what could be the issue here? Using 
> > nProbe v.6.13.130715 and OS Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6.4.
> >  
> > Thank you.
> >  
> > Adam
> >  
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