[Bug 219025] Review Request: ntop - A network traffic probe similar to the UNIX top command

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Summary: Review Request: ntop - A network traffic probe similar to the UNIX top command


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219025


pertusus at free.fr changed:

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------- Additional Comments From pertusus at free.fr  2006-12-12 05:41 EST -------
* the autotools related patches should be made upstream (after removal
  of fedora specific stuff). Did you contact them?

* tcp_wrappers-devel is out in devel

* rpmlint warnings seems to be ignorable.

* I reiterate that dlopened objects are better without version, I
  think the current spec is right.

* ntop is still uninterruptible by Ctrl-C when the password is 
  entered, but I guess it is because Ctrl-C is interpreted as a 
  character of the password.

* I still get, after ctrl-C for the first run:
mar 12 déc 2006 12:07:28 CET  THREADMGMT[t3029126032]: RRD: Data collection
thread terminated [p11257]
*** glibc detected *** ntop: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x096121f0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x2ff54b]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_malloc+0x7e)[0x300c6e]
/usr/lib/libntop-3.2.so(ntop_safestrdup+0x39)[0xb585c9]
/usr/lib/libntop-3.2.so(traceEvent+0x312)[0xb7c472]
/usr/lib/libntop-3.2.so(pcapDispatch+0x1d2)[0xb5ba02]
/lib/libpthread.so.0[0x1532db]
/lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e)[0x365eee]
======= Memory map: ========
Abandon

* Kevin made this relevant comment:
8. Instead of removing the .a files you could just pass '--disable-static'
to configure. Possibly also enable: --enable-snmp ?

* I dislike the following in the init file:
chown -f root.ntop /var/ntop/*db  > /dev/null 2>&1
chmod -f 664 /var/ntop/*db  > /dev/null 2>&1

Is it really needed?

* when starting ntop with /etc/init.d/ntop start 
  the [ OK ] doesn't appear.

* the mechanism described in the "PRIVACY NOTICE" of the man
  page should be disabled, at least when started from init file.
  (the option may be in the ntp.conf file, for example).

* ntop web server listens on all interfaces. In the default case 
  it should only listen to localhost, with
-w 127.0.0.1:3000

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