Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:14:48 -0800 (PST) From: mike@hyperreal.org To: "Walter W. Hop" <walter@binity.nl> Cc: Doug Young <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ntop configuration issues Message-ID: <20001218181448.22869.qmail@hyperreal.org> In-Reply-To: <103298893696.20001218020911@binity.nl> from "Walter W. Hop" at "Dec 18, 2000 02:09:11 am"
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> > I've installed ntop on two different machines ..... a 4.0 RELEASE where it appears to work fine, and a 4.1 RELEASE where it works in interactive (command line) mode but when I try starting in web > > mode (ntop -w) I get > > "-w mode is disabled for security reasons" > > I don't know about this one; maybe in the new version the .ntop file is > mandatory. No, this is not a new version. Newer versions of ntop don't even work on FreeBSD (so much for Linux compatibility). The disabled -w mode is imposed by the FreeBSD port, in response to bug reports that came across the BUGTRAQ list in late July. Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net/ntop/files/ and http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/73351 - Mike ________________________________________________________________________ Mike Brown / Hyperreal | Hyperreal http://music.hyperreal.org/ PO Box 61334 | XML & XSL http://skew.org/xml/ Denver CO 80206-8334 USA | personal http://www.hyperreal.org/~mike/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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