Argus starts and dies.

[Carter Bullard]

Hey Yotam,
   There are a number of reasons why argus might exit.
Can't open the interface, can't set the pid file,
can't create the output file.  All of these generate
error messages, and when argus exits it should print
an exit message to the system log file.

   If argus is not printing anything at all, and there
are no messages in the system log file, then we'll
need to turn on debugging to get argus to tell us whats
wrong.

   First thing is, are you using an /etc/argus.conf file,
or is there an argus.conf file in your home directory
that argus could be using that you are not aware of?
In order to eliminate this possibility, try:

   % argus -Xi ppp0 -w xxx

the '-X' reverts all configuration to default.

   To turn on debugging, you'll have to rebuild
argus with the right tags.  I'd recommend doing this.
In your argus release directory:

   % touch .debug
   % touch .devel
   % make clobber
   % ./configure
   % make

With the new argus that you get from this, then run
argus with these options:

   % argus -d 3 -i ppp0 -w xxx

and lets see what it prints out.

Carter

Carter Bullard
QoSient, LLC
300 E. 56th Street, Suite 18K
New York, New York  10022

carter at qosient.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-argus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
[mailto:owner-argus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu]On Behalf Of Yotam Rubin
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 4:49 PM
To: argus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: Argus starts and dies.


Hello,

I compiled argus 2.0.0V with libpcap 0.6.1-2. My system is:  
Linux insomnia17 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i686 unknown
What could be generating the following behavior?

I start argus: 'argus -i ppp0 -w xxx' and I get the spirit lifting
message
of "argus[10072]: started" but when executing 'ps aux | grep argus' I
get nothing
but irrelevant output. Looking at the strace output, I see that argus
happily
returns 0 upon termination. Please note that this problem did not occur
on
1.8.* versions. 


	Cheers, Yotam Rubin



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