network/ntop: Updated for version 4.0.1.

Signed-off-by: Erik Hanson <erik@slackbuilds.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 67 deletions

diff --git a/network/ntop/README.SLACKWARE b/network/ntop/README.SLACKWARE
index 0186ed3daacf4..fc5a9731886a7 100644
--- a/network/ntop/README.SLACKWARE
+++ b/network/ntop/README.SLACKWARE
@@ -22,58 +22,10 @@ If you want to use a different user and/or group under which to run
 ntop, you can pass alternate values to the NTOPUSER and NTOPGROUP variables
 when running the build script.
 
-1) Download extra databases
----------------------------
-
-After building & installing the ntop package, you might want to
-follow these extra steps:
-
-1.1) GeoIP tables
-
-To identify the location of the external hosts your netwerk connects
-to, ntop uses GeoIP. You will need to download the latest tables to
-your ntop server and store them in /etc/ntop:
-
-  # cd /etc/ntop
-  # wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
-  # gunzip -c GeoLiteCity.dat.gz > GeoLiteCity.dat
-  # wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/asnum/GeoIPASNum.dat.gz
-  # gunzip -c GeoIPASNum.dat.gz > GeoIPASNum.dat
-
-Both files are updated regularly (about once a month). There are some
-suggestions below on how to keep your ntop server up-to-date.
-
-1.2) OS fingerprint database
-
-ntop tries to identify the Operating System from the captures packages by
-searching for a "fingerprint". It uses a table that needs to be downloaded
-from the ettercap project on SourceForge:
-
-  # cd /etc/ntop
-  # wget -O etter.finger.os http://ettercap.cvs.sourceforge.net/ettercap/ettercap_ng/share/etter.finger.os?rev=HEAD
-
-This file hasn't been updated since 2005, so it doesn't identify the more
-modern OSs (Slackware 13.0 is identified as "Debian Linux" :-/ ) but it still
-might be helpful.
-
-1.3) OUI database
-
-All MAC addresses contain a "Organizationally Unique Identifier" (OUI) to
-identify the manufacturer. These OUIs are assigned by the IEEE Standards
-Association. A table is included with ntop, but new OUIs are assigned almost
-every day, so you might want to update the file now, before starting ntop:
-
-  # cd /etc/ntop
-  # wget http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt
-  # gzip -c oui.txt > oui.txt.gz
-
-Since this file changes frequently, check the suggestions later in this file
-on how to keep your ntop server up-to-date.
-
-2) Start & Stop scripts for ntop
+1) Start & Stop scripts for ntop
 --------------------------------
 
-2.1) Automatic startup and shutdown
+1.1) Automatic startup and shutdown
 
 If you want to start ntop on system bootup, include these lines in your
 /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
@@ -93,14 +45,14 @@ To guarantee a clean shutdown of ntop, include this in
     /etc/rc.d/rc.ntop stop
   fi
 
-2.2) Make /etc/rc.d/rc.ntop executable
+1.2) Make /etc/rc.d/rc.ntop executable
 
 Additionally, you'll have to set the rc script to be executable just like 
 any other Slackware rc script:
 
   # chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.ntop
 
-3) Set the administrator password
+2) Set the administrator password
 ---------------------------------
 
 When ntop is installed at the first time, you MUST set the administration 
@@ -113,7 +65,7 @@ For example:
 
 It will prompt you for the password and then exit. 
 
-4) Starting ntop
+3) Starting ntop
 ----------------
 
 Now you are ready to start ntop by calling the startup script:
@@ -135,21 +87,11 @@ Fore more documentation on ntop, check:
 There are also some mailing lists you can subscribe to, that can be found on
 the pages mentioned above.
 
-*** NOTE ***
-* There have been some reports about ntop crashing (segfault) after any
-* period between a couple of minutes to several hours.
-* If this happens on your system, try disabling DNS resolution either from 
-* the menu (admin/configure/startup options/IP Prefs) or changing the rc.ntop
-* file, adding the "-n" option to the line that starts ntop:
-*     /usr/bin/ntop --w3c -u $NTOPUID -n -d >> $NTOPLOG 2>&1
-*                                     ^^
-*** end ***
-
-5) Keeping your ntop tables up-to-date
+4) Keeping your ntop tables up-to-date
 --------------------------------------
 
-Now that your ntop server is running, you might want to keep the tables we
-installed earlier updated automatically.
+Now that your ntop server is running, you might want to keep some of the
+tables that are installed updated automatically.
 
 I do this with a few simple shell scripts I copy to the /etc/cron.xxxx/
 directories, where xxxx stands for:
@@ -168,7 +110,13 @@ My suggestions are:
 
 Don't forget to make the script executable.
 
-The following scripts are examples, feel free to adapt them to your reality:
+The following scripts are examples for the GeoIP and OUI tables, feel free 
+to adapt them to your reality.
+
+The "OS Fingerprint" table has not changed for over five years, so I did not
+create a script for it.
+It you want, you can check for updates at:
+http://ettercap.cvs.sourceforge.net/ettercap/ettercap_ng/share/etter.finger.os?rev=HEAD
 
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