[netflow-tools] pfflowd doesn't run except under debug

[Damien Miller]

Are you sure that you don't have an error message like:

Unable to find unprivileged user "_pfflowd"

In your logs?

-d

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Darren Spruell wrote:

> pfflowd will not stay running on my system unless it is started using
> the '-D' switch. Using '-d' it exits immediately with a return code of
> 1, and with no switches it silently exits immediately with a code of
> 0. Have tried on two different systems, GENERIC and a custom kernel.
> 
> pfflowd-0.7
> 
> OpenBSD 3.9-stable (GENERIC) #1: Tue Aug  8 23:01:29 MST 2006
>     root at molodetz.sancho2k.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> OpenBSD 3.9-stable (NET45xx) #0: Sun Jun  4 15:00:47 MST 2006
>     root at molodetz.sancho2k.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/NET45xx
> 
> Invocation:
> /usr/local/sbin/pfflowd -n molodetz.sancho2k.net:3366 -D
> 
> $ ldd /usr/local/sbin/pfflowd
> /usr/local/sbin/pfflowd:
>         Start    End      Type Open Ref GrpRef Name
>         00000000 00000000 exe  1    0   0      /usr/local/sbin/pfflowd
>         052e8000 252f5000 rlib 0    1   0      /usr/lib/libpcap.so.4.0
>         0e6d4000 2e6d8000 rlib 0    1   0      /usr/lib/libutil.so.11.0
>         0a3cd000 2a3fe000 rlib 0    1   0      /usr/lib/libc.so.39.0
>         00945000 00945000 rtld 0    1   0      /usr/libexec/ld.so
> 
> DS
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