Hi again

hostname refers to the hostname where ntop is installed. That is I prefer
1 over 2.

Thanks for your help.

Best regards,

// Ola

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:37:26AM -0500, A. Costa wrote:
> Package: ntop
> Version: 3:3.2-10.1
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
>     % man ntop | grep -C 1 -in "http://hostname:3000/";
>     496-        For  example,  if  started with -w 3000 (the default port), 
> the URL to
>     497:        access ntop is http://hostname:3000/.  If started with a full 
> specifi-
>     498-        cation,   e.g.   -w   192.168.1.1:3000,  ntop  listens  on  
> only  that
> 
> Line #497 is puzzling.  I'm guessing 'hostname' is a dummy variable,
> because it doesn't work as a literal.  Yet the text refers to it
> as though it were a literal, ("_the_ URL...").
> 
> I'd include a patch, but am uncertain as to the intended meaning:
> 
>     1) "the URL format to access ntop is http://hostname:3000/, where 
> "hostname"
>        is the system's name, e.g. http://192.168.1.1:3000.
>        
>     2) "the URL to access ntop is http://localhost:3000/";
> 
> ...or something else?  Most users would prefer #2, because (in most
> xterms) they can click on the URL to open it.
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages ntop depends on:
> ii  adduser                3.105             add and remove users and groups
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.19            Debian configuration management 
> sy
> ii  libc6                  2.7-8             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libfreetype6           2.3.5-1+b1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared 
> lib
> ii  libgd2-xpm             2.0.36~rc1~dfsg-1 GD Graphics Library version 2
> ii  libgdbm3               1.8.3-3           GNU dbm database routines 
> (runtime
> ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's 
> JPEG 
> ii  libpcap0.7             0.7.2-9           System interface for user-level 
> pa
> ii  libpng12-0             1.2.15~beta5-3    PNG library - runtime
> ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8g-7          SSL shared libraries
> ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime
> 
> ntop recommends no packages.
> 
> -- debconf information excluded
> 
> 
> 

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