From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 10:14:51 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 10:14:48 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hyperreal.org (taz.hyperreal.org [209.133.83.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22DA237B400 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:14:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 22870 invoked by uid 12); 18 Dec 2000 18:14:48 -0000 Message-ID: <20001218181448.22869.qmail@hyperreal.org> From: mike@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: ntop configuration issues In-Reply-To: <103298893696.20001218020911@binity.nl> from "Walter W. Hop" at "Dec 18, 2000 02:09:11 am" To: "Walter W. Hop" Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:14:48 -0800 (PST) Cc: Doug Young , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL60 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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