So you want it done your way and don't understand why RedHat could possible put out a distro without package "foo" in it since _you_ use it but didn't until 5 years after the version you run was released. And you don't want the hassle of actually having to do something to get it installed.<br>
<br>I bet you bitch about "guberment taking over" too.<br><br>As a distribution is a collection of packages that are supposed to work together, a package not in that collection simply means you have to deal with it. ntop is not a commonly used tool according the the people who made the decision at RedHat to leave it out. Is it useful? To you, yes. So now you know that most other RHEL admins don't use it. If they did, it would be part of RHEL5 (it isn't) or RHEL6 (it still isn't in it). But some people do use it and made it work for you if you use the EPEL repository. It's still NOT available for RHEL4 as most every admin is running away from it. The non-security changes in nearly everything since then are worth the effort to migrate.<br>
<br><a href="http://www.apple.com">http://www.apple.com</a> may have the happy place solution for you.<br><br><total snark mode><br><br>It must truly suck to be in your situation. Stuck with a bazillion year old distro and incapable of upgrading and then no one on ALE gives a crap enough to provide FREE help and suggestions because what you really want is for someone to compile it for you and hand you an rpm to install. My advice: STAY AWAY FROM GENTOO!!! <br>
<br>and you probably won't like slackware either<br><br>To paraphrase an idiot who keeps getting media coverage "Admin up".<br><br>Several other people have jumped in your feces since I started writing this reply and they have let you know clearly that your tone in your responses was pretty nasty. So I'm just going to tell you this: go back and reread this thread from start to finish and pay careful attention to the tone of voice you use in your replies. Communication skills are usually pretty crappy in the geek realms and everyone could benefit from some better writing skills. Try writing poetry for a while.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:17 PM, James Sumners <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I suppose that is one way to deal with the lack of packages. But it<br>
does sort of defeat the point of using a distribution, and adds more<br>
work for me. And that is the very thing I was trying to avoid by<br>
installing ntop. I didn't want to re-invent the wheel just to get an<br>
overview of the network usage on my server(s).<br>
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Damon L. Chesser <<a href="mailto:damon@damtek.com">damon@damtek.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> You use a dev server for that and<br>
> make an rpm. Perhaps this would fix your issue? Make an RPM of ntop to<br>
> match your 5 servers software.<br>
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