Change NTOP port in Debian
 

Hi
Iam running ntop as a debian on a Debian Sarge system. I want to change the port so that when the system starts or when I restart the deamon it listens to port 9001. I cant find the configuration file anywhere.

Any suggestions, please ?

One search I did said that it looks in /usr/etc/ntop for the config file. You could also do an updatedb and then locate ntop | grep etc which might help you find it.

Iam going to do that and report results

noccbox:/home/salhidiq# locate ntop | grep etc
/etc/default/ntop
/etc/init.d/ntop
/etc/rc0.d/K20ntop
/etc/rc1.d/K20ntop
/etc/rc2.d/S20ntop
/etc/rc3.d/S20ntop
/etc/rc4.d/S20ntop
/etc/rc5.d/S20ntop
/etc/rc6.d/K20ntop
/etc/logrotate.d/ntop
/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.workstation/ntop
/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/ntop
/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/ntop
/etc/ntop
/etc/ntop/p2c.opt.table.gz
/etc/ntop/etter.passive.os.fp.gz
/etc/ntop/oui.txt.gz
/etc/ntop/specialMAC.txt.gz
/etc/ntop/AS-list.txt.gz
/etc/ntop/protocol.list
/etc/ntop/ntop-cert.pem


Nothing revealing here...this is really driving me crazy !!

Apparently, "I might be wrong about this" there is no specific config file to edit..it all depends upon how you start ntop for example in the command below:

ntop -d -u ntop -i eth0,eth1 -w 5555 --w3c

ntop is started as a daemon -d
ntop is started as user ntop -u
ntop is listening to nics eth0 and eth1 -i
ntop is listening to port 5555 -w
ntop is using --w3c this produces a slightly better display

Ok, then check your rc scripts that start ntop.
/etc/rc2.d/S20ntop
/etc/rc3.d/S20ntop
/etc/rc4.d/S20ntop
/etc/rc5.d/S20ntop

It should loook something like what you posted earlier. Change the port to what you want it to be.

Might also be a feasible idea, I will check that out and post the results too