racount and other commands won't run under argus-clients-3.0.0.rc.68

Mathew Brown mathewbrown at fastmail.fm
Mon Jan 28 12:06:28 EST 2008


Thanks Carter.  Removing the /etc/ra.conf fixed the issue.  But why does
racount look at the old file if it does not use it?  Would this be
considered a bug?  Thanks.

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:41:19 -0500, "Carter Bullard"
<carter at qosient.com> said:
> The ra.conf is a carry over from argus-2.x.  You should remove it or  
> replace
> it with a rarc file in ./support/Config.  And you should have a .rarc  
> file in your
> home directory.
> 
> Carter
> 
> On Jan 27, 2008, at 1:52 PM, Mathew Brown wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I'm new to Argus and just recently compiled and installed argus and
> >  argus-clients on a Debian machine.  I'm able to run argus
> >  successfully:
> >
> >  argus -r capture.cap -w capture.cap.argus
> >
> >  works fine.  However, when I try to run any of the r-commands such as
> >  rahosts or racount, it gives me the following error such as:
> >
> >   racount -ar capture.cap.argus
> >   racount[27189]: 20:51:15.185652 /etc/ra.conf: syntax error line 199
> >   racount   records     total_pkts     src_pkts       dst_pkts
> >   total_bytes        src_bytes          dst_bytes
> >    sum   0           0              0              0              0
> >                 0                  0
> >
> >  Looking into /etc/ra.conf on line 199, I see the following:
> >
> >  RA_PRINT_HOSTNAMES=no
> >
> >  Any ideas?  Thanks for your help.
> >
> > PS.  I'm currently using argus-3.0.0 and
> > argus-clients-3.0.0.rc.68.tar.gz
> > -- 
> >  Mathew Brown
> >  mathewbrown at fastmail.fm
> >
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