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I've installed ntop 3.3.8-2.el5.rf on CentOS 5.6, from the rpm at rpmforge and I'm invoking it with the following startup string ntop -i "bond0" -d -L -u ntop -P /var/ntop --skip-version-check - --use-syslog=daemon -w 6867 Everything appeared to be running just fine until I enabled netflow, and now I'm getting the following errors, piles and piles of them, filling up my logs and also, I believe, the reason I appear to be running up the cpu: <snip> Aug 16 13:44:40 us06mon1 ntop[423]: **WARNING** NETFLOW: mkdir(./netflow-dump/interfaces/NetFlow-device.2/), error 2 No such file or directory Aug 16 13:44:41 us06mon1 ntop[423]: **WARNING** RRD: [path=./netflow-dump][error=13/Permission denied] Aug 16 13:44:41 us06mon1 ntop[423]: **WARNING** RRD: [path=./netflow-dump/interfaces][error=2/No such file or directory] Aug 16 13:44:41 us06mon1 ntop[423]: **WARNING** RRD: [path=./netflow-dump/interfaces/NetFlow-device.2][error=2/No such file or directory] Aug 16 13:44:41 us06mon1 ntop[423]: **WARNING** NETFLOW: mkdir(./netflow-dump/interfaces/NetFlow-device.2/), error 2 No such file or directory Aug 16 13:44:42 us06mon1 ntop[423]: **WARNING** RRD: [path=./netflow-dump][error=13/Permission denied] Aug 16 13:44:42 us06mon1 ntop[423]: **WARNING** RRD: [path=./netflow-dump/interfaces][error=2/No such file or directory] Aug 16 13:44:42 us06mon1 ntop[423]: **WARNING** RRD: [path=./netflow-dump/interfaces/NetFlow-device.2][error=2/No such file or directory] Aug 16 13:44:42 us06mon1 ntop[423]: **WARNING** NETFLOW: mkdir(./netflow-dump/interfaces/NetFlow-device.2/), error 2 No such file or directory Aug 16 13:44:43 us06mon1 ntop[423]: **WARNING** RRD: [path=./netflow-dump][error=13/Permission denied] Aug 16 13:44:43 us06mon1 ntop[423]: **WARNING** RRD: [path=./netflow-dump/interfaces][error=2/No such file or directory] Aug 16 13:44:43 us06mon1 ntop[423]: **WARNING** RRD: [path=./netflow-dump/interfaces/NetFlow-device.2][error=2/No such file or directory] Aug 16 13:44:43 us06mon1 ntop[423]: **WARNING** NETFLOW: mkdir(./netflow-dump/interfaces/NetFlow-device.2/), error 2 No such file or directory Aug 16 13:44:43 us06mon1 ntop[423]: **WARNING** RRD: [path=./netflow-dump][error=13/Permission denied] </snip> I'm not sure where this directory is supposed to be. I've tried creating the following: /var/ntop/rrd/netflow-dump /var/ntop/rrd/interfaces/netflow-dump /var/ntop/netflow-dump In each of the cases above I've followed up by chown'ing and chmod'ing as in the following example: # chown -Rv ntop.ntop netflow-dump changed ownership of `netflow-dump' to ntop:ntop # chmod -Rv 700 netflow-dump mode of `netflow-dump' changed to 0700 (rwx------) # ls -la total 2260 drwxrwxr-x 4 ntop nobody 4096 Aug 16 13:50 . drwxr-xr-x 31 root root 4096 Aug 11 15:55 .. - -rw-r----- 1 root root 14621 Aug 16 13:50 addressQueue.db - -rw-r----- 1 root root 1228981 Aug 16 13:49 dnsCache.db - -rw-r----- 1 root root 12288 Aug 10 15:32 fingerprint.db - -rw-r----- 1 root root 12288 Aug 10 15:44 LsWatch.db - -rw-r----- 1 root root 1044776 Aug 10 15:32 macPrefix.db drwx------ 2 ntop ntop 4096 Aug 16 13:50 netflow-dump - -rw-r----- 1 root root 12566 Aug 11 09:33 ntop_pw.db - -rw-r----- 1 root root 13766 Aug 12 17:08 prefsCache.db drwx------ 5 ntop ntop 4096 Aug 16 13:27 rrd I've tried restarting ntop a couple of times, even though I figure that if I create this *netflow-dump* directly in the correct location I shouldn't have to, yet I'm still getting the syslog errors above. Perhaps the problem I'm running into is that I'm having trouble determining where ./netflow-dump should be? In all of the other references I've come across when searching for an answer the logs all seem to show the absolute paths, like /var/lib/ntop.... or /usr/local/var/ntop..., but where is this relative path, and am I barking up the wrong tree to correct this issue? Any assistance is most appreciated. - -- Bradley D. Thornton Manager Network Services NorthTech Computer TEL: +1.760.666.2703 (US) TEL: +44.203.318.2755 (UK) http://NorthTech.US -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Find this cert at x-hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net iQEcBAEBAwAGBQJOS0vrAAoJEE1wgkIhr9j3j+wIAIYhwJdf4X8ymylZxIJMkMwU QkW6E6LQ2y0DqtNklTdctB4kUfmIlWFqugfoLFjeZBRZqw7syHFemCuzGsz80t4j 7G7yAM8yss7nvygSkw8dPzMaAalTNPhQmzhrLmVM2JnRokCLyKTZaW0w7AR6tuQ3 QmuDQTEuoSK7E/Ukdu36PLn7sqVGwhktG7uIVOf67vZna3SIgA4Li/WzwrOxDefh QniKnhKxL4ikROUJA/PZpiyi5B5Mp/+Ad0wNLsr9PW5y5wa23C3JY1BsdDS5qtP/ dKSfQ7NkNvCNCSGgMXfK9TYVJoRLj0qZcoEJ+me8YhmaQNRLV4jpu9lHxEIvhGw= =HyUW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
