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Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Server Fault is a question and answer site for system and network administrators. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top ntop doesn't start - open of /var/lib/ntop/prefsCache.db failed: Can't be writer up vote 0 down vote favorite I've installed ntop on centos 5.9 using yum. But it doesn't start. I'm getting this error: Wed Mar 20 10:22:44 2013 **ERROR** ....open of /var/lib/ntop/prefsCache.db failed: Can't be writer Wed Mar 20 10:22:44 2013 Possible solution: please use '-P
ntop Log In To The Web Interface Screenshot Network Monitoring With ntop ntop is a network traffic tools that shows network usage in a real time. One of the good things about this tool is that you can use a web browser to manage and navigate through ntop traffic information to better understand network status. Also Ntop monitors and reports hosts traffic and supports these protocols: TCP/UDP/ICMP (R)ARP IPX DLC Decnet http://serverfault.com/questions/489654/ntop-doesnt-start-open-of-var-lib-ntop-prefscache-db-failed-cant-be-writer AppleTalk Netbios TCP/UDP In this tutorial we'll install ntop 3.2 in CentOS 4. Prerequisites Ntop 3.2 LIBPCAP GDBM Links http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/ntop http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/4/i386/glib-1.2.10-16.i386.html Installation 1- Installing G-LIB: rpm -ivh glib-1.2.10-16.i386.rpm 2- Installing ntop: rpm -ivh ntop-3.2-1.el4.rf.i386.rpm Running ntop 1- Initialize ntop: ntop That will initialize ntop and it will ask you https://www.howtoforge.com/network_monitoring_with_ntop to enter your username and password. The default username: admin Password: yourEnteredpassword 2- Start ntop service: service ntop start Log In To The Web Interface ntop can be managed through a web interface. You can enter your server address in your web browser: http://ServerIP:3000 https://ServerIP:3001 Now you can monitor your hosts and manage your ntop configuration. Screenshot view as pdf | print Share this page: Tweet Follow 4 Comment(s) Add comment Name * Email * Comments From: Anonymous Reply Dear Team, We facing the below error in ntop Please guide me. [[emailprotected] ~]# ntop Fri Mar 25 15:58:55 2011 NOTE: Interface merge enabled by default Fri Mar 25 15:58:55 2011 Initializing gdbm databases Fri Mar 25 15:58:55 2011 **ERROR** ....open of /var/lib/ntop/prefsCache.db failed: Can't be writer Fri Mar 25 15:58:55 2011 Possible solution: please use '-P ' Fri Mar 25 15:58:55 2011 **FATAL_ERROR** GDBM open failed, ntop shutting down... Fri Mar 25 15:58:55 2011 CL
-- failed Issues related to software problems Post Reply Print view Search Advanced search 9 posts • Page 1 of 1 hm2k Posts: 24 http://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=37733 Joined: 2006/08/17 10:03:24 Contact: Contact hm2k Website service ntop start -- failed Quote Postby hm2k » 2009/04/22 09:54:47 I get this issue:Code: Select all[root@blade ~]# service ntop start
Starting ntop: Processing file /etc/ntop.conf for parameters...
Wed Apr 22 10:59:12 2009 NOTE: Interface merge enabled by default
Wed Apr 22 10:59:12 2009 Initializing gdbm databases
FATAL ERROR: Unrecognized/unprocessed ntop ntop gdbm options...
> /dev/null
run /usr/sbin/ntop --help for usage information
Common problems:
-B "filter expressions" (quotes are required)
--use-syslog=facilty (the = is required)
ntop gdbm error [FAILED]
I found this...Code: Select all[root@blade ~]# cat /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntop | grep /dev/null
LANG=C daemon "$ntop @$config --daemon > /dev/null"
I'm guessing this is wrong. What should it be? Top pschaff Retired Moderator Posts: 18276 Joined: 2006/12/13 20:15:34 Location: Tidewater, Virginia, North America Contact: Contact pschaff Website Re: service ntop start -- failed Quote Postby pschaff » 2009/04/22 10:05:00 Suggest you ask at [url=config-inifiles-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net]RPMforge[/url]. Not a CentOS package. Top hm2k Posts: 24 Joined: 2006/08/17 10:03:24 Contact: Contact hm2k Website Re: service ntop start -- failed Quote Postby hm2k » 2009/04/22 10:13:07 pschaff wrote:Suggest you ask at [url=config-inifiles-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net]RPMforge[/url]. Not a CentOS package.This list appears to be for the config-inifiles project -- Config::IniFiles A Perl module for reading ".INI" style configuration files. Provides Object-Oriented and tied hash usage styles. What does this have to do with ntop, centos or rpmforge?I have contacted the RPM maintainers already anyway.Meanwhile I decided to try removing the "> /dev/null", as follows:Code: Select all[root@blade ~]# cat /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntop | grep LANG=
#LANG=C daemon "$ntop @$config