[ale] How do people deal with RHEL?

[Jerald Sheets]

I've literally run ntop once in my career, just as a test, and haven't used or seen it for almost 7 years.  It's not that ubiquitous.  We ran it from a metrics machine at the time, not every server. 

If the distro maintainers tried to include every useful tool (and I don't mean to say it's not useful...indeed it most certainly is) that comes along in their distros or even to maintain it in software repos, base installations would be 10G.  Were that to happen, I'd go back to FreeBSD and start cobbling my own distros up from the base ~300M install.


On that topic, I just did:

yum search ntop

and got :

ntop.x86_64 : A network traffic probe similar to the UNIX top command


ummm...  now I am confused.  It's there by default on my RHEL 5.3 distro.  We use RH, EPEL, and a few custom repos, but there it is.


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On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:34 AM, James Sumners wrote:

> I can't fathom why ntop wouldn't be available for install in a
> distribution targeted at servers.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Because many of us don't use ntop on a regular basis?
> 
> 
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