Argus Client RATOP issue

[Carter Bullard via Argus-info]

Hey Carl,
ratop.1 is a curses based program that uses the ncurses and readline libraries.  there is a possibility that when you configured the argus-clients distribution, that ncurses or readline wasn’t found.  normally this would cause the makefiles to just not build ratop, but ratop.1 can run without an output terminal, so its possible that ratop was built, but wasn’t built the way you want.

So, first question, does ratop clear the screen ??  if not, you need to install ncurses and readline, rerun ./configure, and then build the distribution, looking specifically for "-lncurses -lreadline” in the compile line for ratop.

just as a check, if you cd to the ratop directory, what is the output of make ??

   % cd examples/ratop
   % make clean
   % make

Carter


> On Jun 13, 2016, at 10:59 AM, Carl MaGill via Argus-info <argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
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> 
> Dev Team,
> 
> My organization has a need for ratop.  However, it returns nothing when invoked, not even an error message.  
> 
> First, used tcpdump (no flags) to create a PCAP file then used Argus to write to an out file.
> I ran ra first with success.  I tired ratop next with zero results.
> 
> Second, used Argus (no flags) to create a file, ra worked ratop did not.  Also, tried racount, rahost etc with success.   
> 
> Lastly, downloaded the example files from your site, repeated, ended up with the same results.  
> 
> I watched the video on your site and tried searching the interwebs for clues, but was unable to locate anything that helped.  
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> My System is CentOS 6.7 with Argus 3.0.8.1 and Argus-Clients 3.0.8.1  
> 
> Thank You for your assistance
> 
> Carl