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mAineAc <maineac_____@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:abydnUE_25YCnIzcRVn-gA@adelphia.com...
> D. Phan wrote:
> > mAineAc wrote:
> >
> >> D. Phan wrote:
> >>
> >>> Wed Aug  4 14:11:20 2004  Initializing gdbm databases
> >>> Wed Aug  4 14:11:20 2004  Now running as requested user 'nobody'
(99:99)
> >>> Wed Aug  4 14:11:20 2004  **FATAL_ERROR** ....open of
> >>> /usr/local/var/ntop/prefsCache.db failed: File open error
> >>> Wed Aug  4 14:11:20 2004  1. Is another instance of ntop running?
> >>> Wed Aug  4 14:11:20 2004  2. Make sure that the use you specified can
> >>> write in the target directory
> >>> ---
> >>> any idea?
> >>> thanks and regards
> >>> dphan
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> You can try 'chown nobody /usr/local/var/ntop/prefsCache.db'
> >
> > But after ntop was installed, the path /usr/local/var/ntop/prefsCache.db
> > was not existed! That is my wonder..
> >
> >> it says, right in what you posted, that there is an owner or
> >> permission problem.
> >>
> >> mAineAc
>
> Did you receive any errors when installing? Did you read the INSTALL
> file that came with the source? Did you install this from source? Did
> you use a slackware package for this? If so did you have all the
> prerequisite programs installed? If the file doesn't exist then perhaps
> the directory couldn't be written to and you will have to 'chown -R
> nobody /usr/local/var/ntop' to change the ownership of the whole
> directory soit can be written to.
>
> mAineAc

You sound very much, like a FKIA.