Am Mi, den 27.07.2005 schrieb Parameshwara Bhat um 9:11: > Attn: Mr.Alexander Dalloz, Hello :) > I have installed vnstat to collect network traffic information. It's man > page says it collects data from /proc entries. Now my question is, should > I be running it as a daemon or in the background or as a bootup/shutdown > sequence so that each time my desktop goes down, it is able to collect > data from /proc as I guess /proc data is dynamic . > Parameshwara Bhat It is usual to let vnstat run from a cronjob. The vnstat package from Fedora Extras ships that cronjob in /etc/cron.d/vnstat. It runs every 5 minutes and updates the database. If you prefer you can add "vnstat -u" in a script run at shutdown to let it log more precisely (or lower the cronjob frequency to 1 per minute). Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 13:32:55 up 11 days, 18:05, load average: 0.09, 0.13, 0.08
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