Hello all expert Linux users, i fairly new to Linux environment. My distribution is Fedora 7. I installed a firewall monitor software called fwmon through yum. After installation, i would like to run it nad an errors is occurred.


When i typed fwmon in terminal, the error mesage display.
Error Message:

Therefore, i try to search the configuration for fwmon. I typed locate fwmon but i could not find any configuration file.

I wonder if the package is binary(RPM), then no configuration file.

Thanks for your help.

Your help is greatly appreciated by me and others.

Are you running it as root? Try the -v option, maybe you'll get some more info about the error.

I running the firewall monitor(fmon) as root. I also follow your command as above fwmon -v.

This only give me the version of the fwmon.

fwmon: Firewall Monitor (fwmon) v1.1.0
Copyright (c) 2001,2002 Gianni Tedesco
Released under the terms of the GNU GPL Version 2


Do i need to edit the configuration file because i have not yet do that ?

Uhm sorry, i've never used it. It seems that -v stands for version and not for verbose..I think this program doesn't have a configuration file. I've had a look at the README (very fast) and it also talk about iptables...read it carefully maybe you have to run some commands before starting it.