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D. Phan wrote:
> mAineAc wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> to mAineAc,
> I installed ntop from source. Fistly it required me a dep. hell called 
> as gd-2.0.8. I downloaded and installed it right. after gd installed in 
> my box, i installed ntop successfully. however, the /usr/local/var/ntop 
> hasn't been created to.
> is there a ntop for slack-pkg? I am googling and even in 
> www.linuxpackages.net with no success
> any idea?
> regards

ok so you did a make install as root? you said that /usr/local/var/ntop 
was not created? And you made sure you had these libraries: gdchart, gd, 
libpng and libz? Did you create a limited user to use ntop? Are you 
using this command to start ntop '/usr/local/bin/ntop -u userid -P 
directory ...other parameters...'? Have you read the 1STRUN.TXT filefrom 
the doc directory in the source tree?