Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 02:00:14 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: Igor Robul <igorr@speechpro.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What User Runs Startup Scripts? Message-ID: <43C628AE.2060105@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <20060112061842.GA59121@sysadm.stc> References: <43BDEBCB.9060000@mykitchentable.net> <20060110150905.GB1117@sysadm.stc> <43C5DEC6.8060109@mykitchentable.net> <20060112061842.GA59121@sysadm.stc>
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On 1/11/2006 10:18 PM Igor Robul said the following: >On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:44:54PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > >>On 1/10/2006 7:09 AM Igor Robul said the following: >> >> >>>Do you have tun0 interface on boot time? Are you activating ppp >>>manually? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>I do run openvpn and its start up script creates tun0 and tun1. No >>ppp. But the "fatal error" is "Not root". Why is ntop not root? >> >> >Does openvpn start before or after ntop? I _think_, that ntop when tries open >network device and cant do this, it "thinks" that it is not running as >root. > >Remove tun* interfaces from list of interfaces ntop is monitoring. If >problem persist then I'm wrong, if it will disappear, then you can try >reorder startup sequence, for example start openvpn before ntop. > > You are right! Starting openvpn before ntop resolves this issue. Thanks, Drew
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