Solved [was Re: How to run 'vnstat' as user?]

From	Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Solved [was Re: How to run 'vnstat' as user?]
Date	2015-10-23 19:30 +0200
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tomas@tuxteam.de writes:

> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 02:19:35PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:44:41AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> > <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> > > Still confused here. What's the content of this "eth0" file?
>> > >
>> > Its a binary file produced by running "vnstat -u -i eth0" and is the
>> > 'database' for vnstat, containing all the historical info that can be
>> > outputted when you run the command "vnstat".
>> 
>> Thanks, I thing I got it now. I'll test around a bit, but it'll take me
>> some time.
>> 
>> I'll get back to you when I come around to it.
>
> OK. Let's get first the obvious things out of the way:
>
>  - what are the file permissions of this ~/cron/lib/eth0 file? What does
>    (as the "normal" user) ls -l ~/cron/lib/eth0 say?
>
>  - you can try to run vnstat under strace like so:
>
>      strace -o your.trace.file <your vnstat command>
>
>    after this, your.trace.file will contain a log of all system calls
>    done by vnstat. The failing system call should be localizable near
>    the end of that log (do post the last ~50-ish lines if in doubt)
>
The case has been resolved, and vnstat is now working nicely as user.
The solution is to remove the debian version of vnstat, and download the
programme from its home page, which from memory is version 1.14,
whereas debians version is 1.12. Following the instructions in the
downloaded programme it is very easy to set it up to just run as user,
rather than system-wide that the debian package uses. 

Thanks
Sharon.
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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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