Using Ntop on Devil-Linux

[scj6771]

Just got my DL firewall up and running (thanks to you all!) and to be honest with you I am not sure what to do next (extreme DL newb here!), I wanted to see it in action so to speak so I set the NTOP service to run at bootup but not sure what to do after that? It seems to fail?

Again let me be clear, I am a Linux newbie so go easy on me. I just want to see what is going on in real time.

On a side note, I am using PuTTY to gain access to this box. Thanks for all your help.


root@Devil:~ # ntop
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 NOTE: Interface merge enabled by default
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 Initializing gdbm databases
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 **ERROR** ....open of /var/ntop/prefsCache.db failed: File open error
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 Possible solution: please use '-P <directory>'
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 **FATAL_ERROR** GDBM open failed, ntop shutting down...
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 CLEANUP[t16384]: ntop caught signal 2
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 THREADMGMT[t16384]: ntop RUNSTATE: SHUTDOWN(7)
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 CLEANUP[t16384] catching thread is unknown
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 CLEANUP: Running threads
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 CLEANUP: Locking purge mutex (may block for a little while)
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 CLEANUP: Locked purge mutex, continuing shutdown
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 CLEANUP: Continues
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 PLUGIN_TERM: Unloading plugins (if any)
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 CLEANUP: Clean up complete
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 THREADMGMT[t16384]: ntop RUNSTATE: TERM(8)
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 ===================================
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 ntop is shutdown...
Tue Jul 15 21:48:00 2008 ===================================

[scj6771]

Got it up and running with the help of this video I found. This is one sweet utility.

If anyone is interested here it is. (Thanks to the original poster/author/owner of this video)

http://rapidshare.com/files/47266883...rk_Monitor.zip