Re: [Nfsen-discuss] Help needed - NFsen details page errors ...

[Peter H. <ha...@sw...>]

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From: Kent David <Dav...@cu...>
To: "'nfs...@li...'" <nfs...@li...>
Subject: [Nfsen-discuss] Help needed - NFsen details page errors ...
Date: Thu Apr 20 2006 17:54:53 GMT+0200 (CEST)

> Hi 
> 
> I'm fairly new to Linux and completely new to nfsen /nfdump so I may be
> doing something really stupid.
> I have installed nfdump version 1.5 and nfsen 1.2.4 I followed the
> Instructions given within the Readme and Install files. I've checked that
> all dependencies are present and correct (I think)
> On my (Fedora core 4) system these are installed:
> Rrdtools 1.0.49-5
> Php 5.0.4-10.5
> Perl 5.8.6-24 
> 
> (I've created an account called netflow for nfcapd and given added it to the
> apache group)
> 
> The install script runs OK and I can kick it all off with "nfsen.rc start"
> which seems fine. However when using the browser interface the homepage
> seems OK except that in the selected profiles dropdown box I only get <no
> profiles available> The flows packets and traffic pages seem OK but when I
> get to the details page it all goes horribly wrong I get no graphs no
> graphics, whenever I try clicking any buttons I get various errors for
> example:  WARNING: Please select a timeslot between '2006-04-20-15-15' and
> '2006-04-20-15-40'! Even when I have entered one!  or ERROR: Filter syntax:
> sh: /nfdump-1.5.0//nfdump: Permission denied! (Nfdump permissions are
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root)

Make sure your apache is allowed to execute nfdump. Obviously it's not:
"Permission denied" Maybe an intermediate directory has wrong permissions.

> 
> If I try to change anything e.g. Max. Size:  within the stats directory I
> get ERROR: Command failed: ! (I've changed ownership on the profile.dat file
> to user netflow group apache)
> (I've created an account called netflow for nfcapd and added it to the
> apache group ($WWWGROUP) )
> 
> I can't see anything wrong with permissions but I'm not 100% sure what I
> should be looking for.

Well it must be a permission problem. Again - make sure apache can execute and
access file from netflow. This is most likely the error.

	- Peter
> 
> I've uninstalled and tried version 1.2.1 (with nfdump version 1.4.1) and get
> exactly the same problem.
> 
> Any pointers would be most welcomed
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> David
> 
> 
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