Ntop - crashes

[Sharon Kimble]

Andy Green wrote:

> Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> 
>>>Wed Oct 5 11:32:48 2005 Initializing ntop
>>>*** buffer overflow detected ***: ntop terminated
> 
> There is improved memory allocation checking in glibc, and apparently
> some cool compile option called FORTIFY_SOURCE in the kernel too.  I
> don't know which one caused this exception but it is telling you about a
> real bug in ntop I should think.  I guess I might go to the ntop site
> and compile their latest, if the bug is not fixed then talk to the ntop
> guys.
> 
My ntop also had the problem that it was crashing/not starting, so I went to 
the ntop site [http://www.uk.ntop.org/ntop.html] and theres a new release 
candidate out today! So I'm now running ntop-3.2rc2_fc4-1.i386.rpm from  
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=17233&package_id=13248&release_id=147104 
[watch for the wrap] and its installed okay with no problems and is running 
okay [so far at least].

It does give warnings about reading certain files and the ntop.conf being 
renamed, just something to bear in mind :).

Sharon.
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