[netflow-tools] pfflowd 0.7 will not run as daemon

[S.M.Madge]

I found the problem already by looking at /var/log/messages: i didn't
create a _pfflowd user and as such it couldn't chroot....maybe an idea
to put that in the accompanying README file in future releases.

On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 22:30 +0900, Mathieu Sauve-Frankel wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:18:44AM +0200, S.M.Madge wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Somehow pfflowd 0.7 doesn't want to run as a daemon on an openbsd 3.9
> > box. It does run with the debug option (-D) enabled, but that generates
> > a huge amount of extra output/syslog stuff etc.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> How are we supposed to reproduce your problem when you provide absolutely
> no details about your environment other than which version of openbsd you
> are running it on ? 
> 
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