vnstat problem

Mith · 2004-10-07 22:02:05

hi,
does anyone run vnstat successfull with AL? It's really not hard to setup but somehow it won't work.. instead of getting data vnstat always complains about not enough data.. no matter how long i wait

.:[mith@middleearth]:..:[~]:.
.:[ vnstat
 eth0: Not enough data available yet.

any idea?

phrakture · 2004-10-07 22:08:30

http://forums.humdi.net/viewtopic.php?t=265

dump your "ifconfig eth0" output here - if ifconfig displays Tx 0 and Rx 0 then your driver doesn't support traffic information

Mith · 2004-10-08 07:46:39

.:[root@middleearth]:..:[/etc/cron.d]:.
.:[ ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:76:58:FE:B5
          inet addr:192.168.0.2  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:76ff:fe58:feb5/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:111564 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:98506 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:9 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:132878986 (126.7 Mb)  TX bytes:7510522 (7.1 Mb)
          Interrupt:23 Base address:0xdc00

thx phrakture for trying to help!
so i guess the driver is fine.. I just did a

vnstat -u

as root, since that's sorta what the vnstat file in /etc/cron.d/ does.. and now I have data..
question: could it be that /etc/cron.d/ is working right ?
I did a

tail -f /var/log/messages

and there's no vnstat running ( i remember that the vnstat update call came up in /var/log/messages in my old distri )
so what can I do? I need to fix that cron issue, my guess there's my problem

Mith · 2004-10-08 13:29:13

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * vnstat -u

that's what i added to my root crontab.. dunno why it won't work the normal way but this way it's updated every 5minutes..

edit:

*/5 * * * * vnstat -u

thx to b0uncer!
it still runs every 5minutes but looks so much cooler

KBM · 2011-09-10 02:22:58

Thx Mith, looks like vnstat doesn't properly install the cron job. Easy as

crontab -e

and putting there your stuff.

Again, thanks!

fsckd · 2011-09-10 03:02:27

KBM,

No necro-bumping.
This thread is from 2004, almost 7 years old!
Mith hasn't posted in 3 years. I don't think any of them will see your response.
Read and memorize all of this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Forum_Etiquette

Closing.

Arch Linux

#1 2004-10-07 22:02:05

vnstat problem

#2 2004-10-07 22:08:30

Re: vnstat problem

#3 2004-10-08 07:46:39

Re: vnstat problem

#4 2004-10-08 13:29:13

Re: vnstat problem

#5 2011-09-10 02:22:58

Re: vnstat problem

#6 2011-09-10 03:02:27

Re: vnstat problem

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