why my ntop can't start using service ntop start command

cmx08 · 10-21-2008, 04:07 AM

Hi All

I have install ntop previously but I can't run the ntop using the command "service ntop start". I need to run the ntop using the command "ntop -w 8080" for example to run the ntop. Why?

Thx.

acid_kewpie · 10-21-2008, 04:56 AM

because there'd probably no service script in /etc/init.d for it. generally ntop doesn't contain one, you can convert an existing one for a different service if you wish to.

cmx08 · 10-21-2008, 08:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acid_kewpie

generally ntop doesn't contain one, you can convert an existing one for a different service if you wish to.

Thx for your answer. But I not so understand what you mean? Can you please explain it more clearly. Thx and sorry for that.

cmx08 · 10-21-2008, 08:43 AM

But from the HowtoForge tutorial "http://www.howtoforge.com/network_monitoring_with_ntop", they start the ntop service using command "service ntop start".

acid_kewpie · 10-21-2008, 01:27 PM

well they presumably installed from an rpm whose author wrote one. the "service" command is really misleading and i'd advise you never use it, it's pointless at best. instead of running "service something restart" just run "/etc/init.d/something restart" and such, much quicker, and that's all the service command does. in your case there is just no script there to run. where did you install ntop from? those scripts are distro specific, so if you just got a tarball from ntop.org then it has no idea what distro you are running without a lot of guess work and it's not a software writers job to integrate it into each distro on the market.

cmx08 · 10-21-2008, 10:52 PM

I just download the ntop tarball from the ntop.org and install it. Anyway I will do more research on doing that.

Thx a lot for helping.