Package: ntop
Version: 2:3.0-3
Severity: important
'ntop' doesn't seem to run on my system. Not as root:
ntop; echo $?
Sun Jan 23 02:34:47 2005 ntop will be started as user nobody
Sun Jan 23 02:34:47 2005 ntop v.3.0 SourceForge .tgz MT (SSL)
Sun Jan 23 02:34:47 2005 Configured on Aug 9 2004 13:13:22, built on
Aug 9 2004 13:14:07.
Sun Jan 23 02:34:47 2005 Copyright 1998-2004 by Luca Deri <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
Sun Jan 23 02:34:47 2005 Get the freshest ntop from
http://www.ntop.org/
Sun Jan 23 02:34:47 2005 Initializing ntop
Sun Jan 23 02:34:47 2005 Checking ppp0 for additional devices
Sun Jan 23 02:34:47 2005 Resetting traffic statistics for device ppp0
Sun Jan 23 02:34:47 2005 **WARNING** DLT: Device 0 [ppp0] MTU value
unknown
Sun Jan 23 02:34:47 2005 **WARNING** DLT: Processing continues OK
Sun Jan 23 02:34:47 2005 DLT: Device 0 [ppp0] is 113, mtu 65355,
header 0
Sun Jan 23 02:34:47 2005 Initializing gdbm databases
Sun Jan 23 02:34:47 2005 Now running as requested user 'nobody'
(65534:65534)
Sun Jan 23 02:34:48 2005 **FATAL_ERROR** ....open of
/var/lib/ntop/prefsCache.db failed: File open error
Sun Jan 23 02:34:48 2005 1. Is another instance of ntop running?
Sun Jan 23 02:34:48 2005 2. Make sure that the use you specified can
write in the target directory
255
Not as user:
ntop; echo $?
Sun Jan 23 02:34:56 2005 **WARNING** You need root capabilities to
capture network packets.
Sun Jan 23 02:34:56 2005 Unable to read shadow passwords. Become root
first and start ntop again
255
If an 'ntop' daemon should be running, it isn't:
ps -A | grep ntop ; echo $?
1
Purging and reinstalling the 'ntop' package doesn't fix it.
If it matters my net connection is via a modem.
The file mentioned in the "FATAL_ERROR" exists:
ls -Gg /var/lib/ntop/prefsCache.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 12795 Jan 23 02:52 /var/lib/ntop/prefsCache.db
Diagnosis: I dunno...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages ntop depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.42 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgd2-xpm 2.0.33-1.1 GD Graphics Library version 2
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-2 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-9 The GLib library of C routines
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpcap0.7 0.7.2-7 System interface for user-level pa
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3 SSL shared libraries
ii libxml2 2.6.11-5 GNOME XML library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
* ntop/interfaces: ppp0
* ntop/user: alfie
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