After upgrading to latest version or update your existing well working nTop, you may expect this error when starting nTop by doing “service ntop start”.
# service ntop start Starting ntop: Processing file /etc/ntop.conf for parameters... Mon Nov 24 23:56:36 2008 NOTE: Interface merge enabled by default Mon Nov 24 23:56:36 2008 Initializing gdbm databases FATAL ERROR: Unrecognized/unprocessed ntop options... --user ntop, --db-file-path /var/ntop, run ntop --help for usage information
A script error in the startup file has been discovered. Edit the following line in file : /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntop
daemon $prog -d -L @/etc/ntop.conf
(This is in the “start ()” section)
Replace with the line:
daemon $prog @/etc/ntop.conf -d -L