[flow-tools] flow-capture problem

[Mark Fullmer]

FYI, you may want to check your syslog configuration.  flow-capture 
will log that error before exiting.

Apr  3 00:00:10 char flow-capture[29468]: chdir(/tmp/flows): No such file or directory

or

Apr  3 00:01:38 char flow-capture[29485]: mkdir(2002): Permission denied
Apr  3 00:01:38 char flow-capture[29485]: ftfile_mkpath(2002/2002-04/2002-04-03/tmp-v05.2002-04-03.000138-0500): Permission denied

or 

Apr  3 00:01:02 char flow-capture[29477]: chdir(/tmp/flows): Permission denied

mark

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 01:03:47PM -0800, Annie Tong wrote:
> Thanks Mark!  I should have read the flow-capture doc. more carefully. 
> Now I figured it's just the writing permission of the disk.
> 
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Annie Tong
> MAE Engineering
> MCI WorldCom
> 
> Mark Fullmer wrote:
> 
> >Run flow-capture with -D -d99.
> >
> >On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 12:01:26PM -0800, Annie Tong wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I encountered flow-capture problem after installing FlowScan1.006 on 
> >>Solaris 2.8.  I couldn't start flow-capture, it kept dying whenever I 
> >>initiated the process.  I debugged flow-tool with flow-receive and 
> >>verified that it collected the exported data properly.  I also verified 
> >>that the process didn't core dump and I didn't find any messages in the 
> >>syslog.  Any advice in how to debug this problem?
> >>
> >>Thanks a lot!
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>Annie Tong
> >>MAE Engineering
> >>MCI WorldCom  
> >>
> >>
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> >
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