Re: ratop exits with no errors (but no data)

Hey Jesse,
No screen ... no good ... I suspect that we built ratop.1 without  curses  ... what platform ????   Did 3.0.8.3 do anything for you ??
Carter



> On Jan 23, 2017, at 10:55 AM, Jesse Bowling <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Jan 23, 2017, at 9:42 AM, Carter Bullard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hey Jesse,
>> There are lots of reasons why ratop.1 might want to disconnect from a remote data source.   Things like version incompatibility, (attaching a v3 client to a v5 data source), filter error, if there aren’t any listens available to accept the connection, if tcp-wrappers or a firewall blocks the connection, etc…. But usually ratop.1 provides a blank screen, and just sits there.
> 
> No screen, just an immediate exit unfortunately.
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>> Assuming that ratop.1 was built correctly, and you do get a curses screen,
> 
> No guarantees on this. :)
> 
>> it maybe that the curses screen of ratop.1 is eating the debug output.  Debug messages come out at the bottom of the window.   If that is a possibility, run ratop.1 with the “ -M nocurses “ option, to see if you get a few more error messages.
> 
> Tried this and it makes no difference; it's just the same errors and an immediate exit.
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>> Most of the time, if ratop.1 is having a problem, ra.1 would have the same problem.  How does it do ???
> 
> ra works like a champ in this situation; printing flow records to match my filter. We'll investigate the build and verify there were no missed error or warning messages.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jesse
> 
>> Carter
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 20, 2017, at 11:53 AM, Jesse Bowling via Argus-info <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Ran into an odd situation wherein invoking ratop results in an immediate exit and not data when pointed to an argus instance running on localhost. I can connect with ra without issue, but ratop simply exits. Here's the run:
>>> 
>>> # ratop -D 4 -S 127.0.0.1:561
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727713 ArgusAddHostList (0x96b68010, 127.0.0.1:561, 1, 6) returning 1
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727751 ArgusNewQueue () returning 0x1d9fcc0
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727760 ArgusNewHashTable (65536) returning 0x1d9e780
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727770 ArgusNewQueue () returning 0x1da0880
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727775 ArgusNewHashTable (65536) returning 0x1da08e0
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727779 ArgusNewQueue () returning 0x1da0920
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727784 ArgusNewQueue () returning 0x1da0980
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727787 ArgusNewQueue () returning 0x1da09e0
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727792 ArgusNewQueue () returning 0x1da0a90
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727795 ArgusNewQueue () returning 0x1da0af0
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727802 ArgusNewHashTable (1048576) returning 0x1da0b50
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727805 RaCursesNewProcess(0x96b68010) returns 0x1da0a40
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727809 ArgusNewQueue () returning 0x1da0be0
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727812 ArgusNewQueue () returning 0x1da0c40
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727818 ArgusNewHashTable (1048576) returning 0x1da0ca0
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727821 RaCursesNewProcess(0x96b68010) returns 0x1da0b90
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727825 ArgusNewQueue () returning 0x1da0d30
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727828 ArgusNewQueue () returning 0x1da0d90
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727833 ArgusNewHashTable (1048576) returning 0x1da0df0
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727837 RaCursesNewProcess(0x96b68010) returns 0x1da0ce0
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.727843 ArgusNewQueue () returning 0x1da1b20
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.729713 ArgusWindowClose () returning
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.729717 RaParseComplete(caught signal 0)
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.729888 ArgusDeleteList (0x1d9e050, 4) returning
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.729894 ArgusDeleteList (0x1d9e0f0, 4) returning
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.729898 ArgusDeleteQueue (0x1d9f680) returning
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.729988 ArgusDeleteLabeler (0x7fea96b68010, 0x1d9f530) returning
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.729993 ArgusDeleteQueue (0x1d9fcc0) returning
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.730079 ArgusDeleteHashTable (0x1d9e780)
>>> ratop[26403.40c7ca96ea7f0000]: 01/20/17 11:49:48.730083 ArgusDeleteAggregator(0x7fea96b68010, 0x1d9f1e0) returned
>>> # ratop -h
>>> RaTop Version 3.0.8.2
>>> 
>>> Any hints?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Jesse
>>> --
>>> Jesse Bowling
>>> 
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> Jesse Bowling
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