Honeypots: Re: honeyd 1.0 and rrdtool error

[Olaf Gellert <og () pre-secure de>]

insideout wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've just installed honeyd-1.0 on RH 8 (not the latest I know, but all I
> had on hand). I added the current  libevent, libdnet and rrdtool-1.0.49
> as required, libpcap and python were already there. Everything appears
> to have gone fine, but on starting honeyd I get the following repeating
> in the logs:
> honeyd: rrdtool_fork: execv(/usr/local/rrdtool-1.0.49/): Permission denied
> honeyd[825]: rrdtool returning errors - restarting.
> honeyd[825]: Respawing rrdtool too quickly
Just a short guess without having a closer look:
The error message seems to say, that execv is trying
to execute a directory (instead of a binary in this
directory). Maybe I am wrong, but I could not resist.

Olaf

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