ipac-ng: /usr/sbin/fetchipac: data corrupted

Hi all,

I recently set up a Linux-Gateway running Debian testing. Now I wanted
to use ipac-ng for traffic accounting (did this before on other
servers - no prob there).
On the actual box I get the following error calling ipacsum, but only
when accouting was up for 1 hour or so - initial accounting works,
though:

GDBM storage returned too many data for timestamp 1074191401 Aborting
/usr/sbin/fetchipac: data corrupted


I'm using:
ipac-ng 1.27-3
iptables 1.2.9-1
kernel 2.4.22-3
libgdbm3 1.8.3-2

Error occurs also with the default-rules from the package.

Any idea how to fix this? I googled this error, but apparently I'm
privileged with this ;-)
Maybe someone can point me to an alternative to ipac-ng? I just want
to know the traffic in sum and splitted to the different protocols
(http, ssh, smtp, ...).

Thanks in advance,
Kai

Kai Bleek <public@spellweaver.de> wrote:

It seems you're not the only one with corruption problems with ipac-ng.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202441

It pays to visit bugs.debian.org/<package> before asking a newsgroup.
Although in this case, there has been no resolution.

By the vague error message, might I suggest you rotate the log more
often???

> Maybe someone can point me to an alternative to ipac-ng? I just want
> to know the traffic in sum and splitted to the different protocols
> (http, ssh, smtp, ...).

ntop? Did you want billing-type accounting? If then, don't use ntop.
Although ntop does give a rather good breakdown, although I've only
briefly played with it myself.

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Cameron Kerr <cameron.kerr@paradise.net.nz> wrote in message news:<4007f0d5@news.orcon.net.nz>...
> Kai Bleek <public@spellweaver.de> wrote:
>
> It seems you're not the only one with corruption problems with ipac-ng.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202441
>
> It pays to visit bugs.debian.org/<package> before asking a newsgroup.
> Although in this case, there has been no resolution.

Thanks - should have looked there first, you're right about that.

I took the source package from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipac-ng/ and it works now.

Thanks,
Kai