What User Runs Startup Scripts?

[Drew Tomlinson]

On 1/11/2006 10:18 PM Igor Robul said the following:

>On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 08:44:54PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
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>>On 1/10/2006 7:09 AM Igor Robul said the following:
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>>>Do you have tun0 interface on boot time? Are you activating ppp
>>>manually?
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>>I do run openvpn and its start up script creates tun0 and tun1.  No 
>>ppp.  But the "fatal error" is "Not root".  Why is ntop not root?
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>Does openvpn start before or after ntop? I _think_, that ntop when tries open 
>network device and cant do this, it "thinks" that it is not running as
>root.
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>Remove tun* interfaces from list of interfaces ntop is monitoring. If
>problem persist then I'm wrong, if it will disappear, then you can try
>reorder startup sequence, for example start openvpn before ntop.
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You are right!  Starting openvpn before ntop resolves this issue.

Thanks,

Drew