ntop wont start
Hi,
When I start #ntop, i get:
> Wed Oct 26 21:28:11 2005 ntop will be started as user nobody
> Wed Oct 26 21:28:11 2005 ntop v.3.0 SourceForge .tgz MT (SSL)
> Wed Oct 26 21:28:11 2005 Configured on Jan 30 2005 22:53:02, built on
> Jan 30 2005 22:53:23.
> Wed Oct 26 21:28:11 2005 Copyright 1998-2004 by Luca Deri <deri@ntop.org>
> Wed Oct 26 21:28:11 2005 Get the freshest ntop from http://www.ntop.org/
> Wed Oct 26 21:28:11 2005 Initializing ntop
> Wed Oct 26 21:28:11 2005 Checking eth0 for additional devices
> Wed Oct 26 21:28:11 2005 Resetting traffic statistics for device eth0
> Wed Oct 26 21:28:11 2005 DLT: Device 0 [eth0] is 1, mtu 1514, header 14
> Wed Oct 26 21:28:11 2005 Initializing gdbm databases
> Wed Oct 26 21:28:11 2005 Now running as requested user 'nobody'
> (65534:65534)
> Wed Oct 26 21:28:11 2005 **FATAL_ERROR** ....open of
> /var/lib/ntop/prefsCache.db failed: File open error
> Wed Oct 26 21:28:11 2005 1. Is another instance of ntop running?
> Wed Oct 26 21:28:11 2005 2. Make sure that the use you specified can
> write in the target directory
What's the problem?
sabx
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