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Re: How to run 'vnstat' as user?

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On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 03:09:29PM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> I'm having great difficulty in getting vnstat to run as user, like I had
> on my previous i386 computer. I have created the new 64bit eth0 binary
> file in ~/cron/lib/ so that it is backed up with my regular backups with
> obnam. Except it seems that only root or vnstat can run and own the
> ~/cron/lib/eth0, which is then unable to be backed up with obnam because
> its only a user backup and not root.
> 
> How then can I run vnstat as a user please?

Hmm. Trying to understand: you are trying to run vmstat from cron?
Does it work when you run it from the command linee?

regards
- - tomás
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How to run 'vnstat' as user? Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> - 2015-10-19 16:20 +0200
  Re: How to run 'vnstat' as user? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-10-19 18:50 +0200
    Re: How to run 'vnstat' as user? Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> - 2015-10-19 19:20 +0200
      Re: How to run 'vnstat' as user? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-10-19 22:40 +0200
        Re: How to run 'vnstat' as user? Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> - 2015-10-20 12:50 +0200
          Re: How to run 'vnstat' as user? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-10-20 15:00 +0200
            Re: How to run 'vnstat' as user? tomas@tuxteam.de - 2015-10-21 18:30 +0200
              Solved [was Re: How to run 'vnstat' as user?] Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> - 2015-10-23 19:30 +0200

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