It won't - but the directory should have been created by make install in the first place...
The directory needs to be writable by the -u userid (usually ntop). Since the other files are written by root, changing ownership to ntop:ntop is sufficient. -----Burton > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Joe Carder > Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 4:55 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [Ntop] NTOP startup problem, i386 proccessor with > slackware10 > > > I had a similar problem as yours, except I didn't touch the prefsCache.db. > I just created the folder and then ntop created the file when I first ran > it. I would try deleting it and see if ntop will create it on its own. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of a a > Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 4:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Ntop] NTOP startup problem, i386 proccessor with slackware10 > > Hello everyone; > I am running on a PIII 500 mhz machine with slackware > 10, the installation went smooth, had to download & > install gd. But afterwards it seems it was a easy > breeze, > ./configure > make > checkinstall > > after that i started ntop at the command prompt > however, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/james# ntop > > Fri Sep 24 14:43:25 2004 ntop will be started as user > nobody > Fri Sep 24 14:43:25 2004 ntop v.3.0 SourceForge .tgz > MT (SSL) > Fri Sep 24 14:43:25 2004 Configured on Sep 24 2004 > 12:44:55, built on Sep 24 2004 12:48:38. > Fri Sep 24 14:43:25 2004 Copyright 1998-2004 by Luca > Deri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fri Sep 24 14:43:25 2004 Get the freshest ntop from > http://www.ntop.org/ > Fri Sep 24 14:43:25 2004 Initializing ntop > Fri Sep 24 14:43:25 2004 Checking eth0 for additional > devices > Fri Sep 24 14:43:25 2004 Resetting traffic statistics > for device eth0 > Fri Sep 24 14:43:25 2004 DLT: Device 0 [eth0] is 1, > mtu 1514, header 14 > Fri Sep 24 14:43:25 2004 Initializing gdbm databases > Fri Sep 24 14:43:25 2004 Now running as requested > user 'nobody' (99:99) > Fri Sep 24 14:43:25 2004 **FATAL_ERROR** ....open of > /usr/local/var/ntop/prefsCache.db failed: File open > error > Fri Sep 24 14:43:25 2004 1. Is another instance of > ntop running? > Fri Sep 24 14:43:25 2004 2. Make sure that the use > you specified can write in the target directory > > Next i navigated to /usr/local/var and discovered that > there was not ntop folder. So i did a mkdir ntop and > touch prefsCache.db > > Started NTOP again > however same error. > > Next i did a ps -aux and there was no ntop running in > the processes. Also i did a ls -al ntop and it came > up as root root. > > Can some one help me out on this problem? I really > like to start using ntop and the console version intop > i believe that is called. > > Than you very much everyone > james > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop > _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
