Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] DL 1.3.4 iptraf not found

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Hey,

On Fri, January 11, 2008 06:58, Andrzej Odyniec wrote:
> Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>
>> But Serge was so nice to fix the compile of iptraf for you. I created a
>>  new testing release and currently upload it to the ftp server. The
>> upload will be finished about 1 hour after I sent this email.
>
> iptraf is working, but not completely:
>
> 1. Serge (?) changed WORKDIR from /var/local/iptraf to /var/iptraf and it
> is good solution... but in /var automatically is created directory
> local/iptraf but not iptraf. I don’t understood way /var directory tree
> creation. Maybe it is my problem only -- I have mounted in /var my
> existing hdd partition; maybe if /var is on ramdisk it is ok; but if
> not... there are no place to save config and filters until mkdir
> /var/iptraf

It will get created only on the ramdisk.
If you already have an existing /var which you mount from a harddisk, then
DL doesn't touch it. We do this so we don't screw up your data.

> 2. binaries are directed to /usr/bin as for iptraf as for rvnamed but
> TARGET
> setting in Makefile is left as /usr/local/bin and in this directory iptraf
> try to find rvnamed (and rawtime), so if we configure i.e. Reverse DNS
> lookups to ON, we obtain “Can't start rvnamed; lookups will block”. We
> must start rvnamed manually before iptraf every time. I hope, for this is
> sufficient to change TARGET settings in Makefile.

I have corrected this in CVS.
The next testing release will include the changes.

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org