ntop error

[mc_rph]

When I try to start ntop I get the following error:

bash-2.05b# ntop
Fri May 21 20:05:46 2004 ntop will be started as user nobody
Fri May 21 20:05:46 2004 ntop v.3.0 SourceForge .tgz MT (SSL)
Fri May 21 20:05:46 2004 Configured on May 21 2004 20:03:03, built on May 21 2004 20:03:34.
Fri May 21 20:05:46 2004 Copyright 1998-2004 by Luca Deri <deri@ntop.org>
Fri May 21 20:05:46 2004 Get the freshest ntop from http://www.ntop.org/
Fri May 21 20:05:46 2004 Initializing ntop
Fri May 21 20:05:46 2004 Checking eth0 for additional devices
Fri May 21 20:05:46 2004 Resetting traffic statistics for device eth0
Fri May 21 20:05:46 2004 DLT: Device 0 [eth0] is 1, mtu 1514, header 14
Fri May 21 20:05:46 2004 Initializing gdbm databases
Fri May 21 20:05:46 2004 Now running as requested user 'nobody' (65534:65534)
Fri May 21 20:05:46 2004 **FATAL_ERROR** ....open of /var/lib/ntop/prefsCache.db failed: File open error
Fri May 21 20:05:46 2004 1. Is another instance of ntop running?
Fri May 21 20:05:46 2004 2. Make sure that the use you specified can write in the target directory

Any clues?

TIA,
mc_rph

[golloza]

[mc_rph]

This just gives:

bash-2.05b# ls -l /var/lib/ntop
total 0

Don't know why "ls" should do anything but it for sure does not solve my problem....

Thanks anyway,
mc_rph

[golloza]

I meant
ls -l /var/lib

This will show you if nobody has write access to /var/lib/ntop

[mc_rph]

[chrisis]

What should ls -l /var/lib/ntop show?

I am getting this error when I try to start ntop:

[Marlo]

The solution: