Subject: Re: net/ntop2 and pr#13058
To: Charlie Allom <charlie@rubberduck.com>
From: Hauke Fath <hf@tangro.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/13/2002 12:59:56
Am 13.11.2002 um 14:22 Uhr +1100  schrub Charlie Allom:
>On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:23:54AM +0100, Hauke Fath wrote:
>  > >From 'cvs log':
>>
>>  ----------------------------
>>  revision 1.6
>>  date: 2002/08/05 06:54:13;  author: veego;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -1
>>  Mark as broken, because ntop2 wants to write to /usr/pkg/var/ntop,
>>  but doesn't create this directory and PR 13058 makes it impossible to
>>  change that location.
>  > ----------------------------
>  >
>>  State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
>>  State-Changed-By: wiz
>>  State-Changed-When: Mon Aug 5 08:02:15 PDT 2002
>>
>>  What next?
>
>comment out #BROKEN - or someone fix this in CVS?

The latter, please -- IMO, /usr/pkg/var is extremely ugly.

I set ntop's default path to /var/ntop, but judging from the content

[hf@jump] ~ > l /var/ntop
total 146
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  24576 Nov 11 14:59 LsWatch.db
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  24576 Nov 11 18:09 addressCache.db
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  24576 Nov 11 14:59 dnsCache.db
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  24576 Nov 11 14:59 hostsInfo.db
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  24725 Nov 11 15:04 ntop_pw.db
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  24806 Nov 11 15:05 prefsCache.db

'/var/db/ntop' would be more appropriate.

	hauke

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