Hi Will,
Will McDonald wrote:
> On 01/02/06, WipeOut <wipe_out@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>I have a CentOS 4 server at home where we store all our data, I wanted
>>to get some idea of the amount of traffic going into and out of the
>>server by protocol so I installed IPtraf..
>>
>>When I run it from an ssh session it looks fine but when I run it
>>directly on the server console its doesn't look right at all.. It
>>doesn't seem to layout correctly..
>>
>>Is there something I need to do differently on the console to run it?
>
>
> It's probably a terminal type thing. I've noticed in Putty instead of
> getting vertical and horizontal "bars" in the curses interface I get
> xxxxxx and qqqqqqq with l-m-k-j in the corners.
>
> Running from the console actually displays properly for me.
>
> There are a bunch of various rendering options within Putty to deal
> with this I think.
>
> Try each of the following from your terminal/console...
>
> export TERM=vt100; iptraf
> export TERM=linux; iptraf
> export TERM=xterm; iptraf
>
Tried all three, no change, still comes out a bit strange..
> You can also increase your console resolution (with care).
>
> Getting a Hi-Res Console
>
> 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
> 256 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307
> 32k 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319
> 64k 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A
> 16M 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B
>
> 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
> 256 769 771 773 775
> 32k 784 787 790 793
> 64k 785 788 791 794
> 16M 786 789 792 795
>
> Edit your grub or lilo config and add vga=NNN where NNN is either the
> hex or decimal equivalent to your desired resolution from the tables
> above.
>
> title White Box Enterprise Linux hi-res (2.6.9-5.0.5.EL)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL ro root=/dev/Vg00/Lv00 vga=773
> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL.img
>
Changing the resolution on the console also didn't make any difference
but is handy to know.. :)
Would it make any difference that the IPtraf that was installed came
from DAG's yum repo and not the CentOS repo?
Thanks.
