Re: [Cflowd] cflowd is recording flow only once on startup in redhat linux 7.2

From: Christian Cinetto (cinetto@garr.it)
Date: Thu Jul 18 2002 - 00:32:50 PDT

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    Hi do not know if it is your case , but you may try to use the option
    cflowd -s250 /usr/local/arts/etc/cflowd.conf

    There could be a symtax problem(tab or space after -s);
    If it does not work try to patch it through Dave Plonka's patch
       http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~plonka/cflowd/?M=D
    Regards ,
                    Christian Cinetto

    On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, vinayak desai wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > I was able to install the cflowd-2-1-b1 with arts++-1-1-a8. However cflowd is logging data only once when I start it. After that no new flows it is recording from cisco 4500 router.
    >
    > Then I tried to start cflowd with following options
    > /usr/local/arts/sbin/cflowd -s 250 /usr/local/arts/etc/cflowd.conf
    > it says its an invalid option.
    >
    > Now what i am doing is I am killing and restarting cflowd every 5 minutes using this statement through cron daemon
    > 0-59/5 * * * * root /usr/local/arts/sbin/cflowd /usr/local/arts/etc/cflowd.conf
    > 4,9,14,19,24,29,34,39,44,49,54,59 * * * * root killall cflowd
    >
    > whereas in startup file S99cflowd i have put
    >
    > #!/bin/bash
    > /usr/local/arts/sbin/cflowdmux /usr/local/arts/etc/cflowd.conf
    > sleep 5
    > /usr/local/arts/sbin/cfdcollect /usr/local/arts/etc/cfdcollect.conf
    >
    > With this I am getting flows every 5 minutes!!!
    >
    > Actually I want to start cflowdmux cflowd and cfdcollect through startup script and use -s option.
    >
    > Have I done something wrong in compilation?
    >
    > Thanks and Regards
    >
    > Vinayak
    >
    >
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