Bugzilla Bug 46969

After I have installed ntop-3.0, /var/lib/ntop is created
with root as owner, but ntop is running as nobody, and it can't
create any new files inside. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Error message:

Fri May 21 11:15:30 2004  ntop v.3.0 SourceForge .tgz MT (SSL)
Fri May 21 11:15:30 2004  Configured on May 21 2004 11:11:10, built on May 21 2004 11:11:53.
Fri May 21 11:15:30 2004  Copyright 1998-2004 by Luca Deri <deri@ntop.org>
Fri May 21 11:15:30 2004  Get the freshest ntop from http://www.ntop.org/
Fri May 21 11:15:30 2004  Initializing ntop
Fri May 21 11:15:30 2004  Checking eth0 for additional devices
Fri May 21 11:15:30 2004  Resetting traffic statistics for device eth0
Fri May 21 11:15:30 2004  DLT: Device 0 [eth0] is 1, mtu 1514, header 14
Fri May 21 11:15:30 2004  Initializing gdbm databases
Fri May 21 11:15:30 2004  Now running as requested user 'nobody' (65534:65534)
Fri May 21 11:15:30 2004  **FATAL_ERROR** ....open of /var/lib/ntop/prefsCache.db failed: File open error
Fri May 21 11:15:30 2004  1. Is another instance of ntop running?
Fri May 21 11:15:30 2004  2. Make sure that the use you specified can write in the target directory

If I chown nobody:nobody /var/lib/ntop/, ntop appears to start. Howver, I don't know if that is the best way to fix the problem. Perhaps a new ntop user/group?

Same thing for ntop-2.2c, after "chown -R nobody:nobody ntop/" also rrdtool
works now.

fixed in portage