From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 20:52:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A02F16A508 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:52:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@socruel.nu) Received: from gone.xs4all.nl (gone.xs4all.nl [213.84.247.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C0443DBB for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:50:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars@socruel.nu) Received: from saturnus.intra.socruel.nu (saturnus.intra.socruel.nu [172.16.0.12]) by gone.xs4all.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D99C33CBC for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:51:04 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:50:55 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Message-ID: <302F75DC2739FB43B236373398A8C599299D@saturnus.intra.socruel.nu> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Pfstat trouble, no data in database file Thread-Index: AcccnLXRXejDz1WJQqKIikC4XdJgXA== From: "Lars Wittebrood" To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Pfstat trouble, no data in database file X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:52:37 -0000 Hello list, I've installed and configure the Pfstat port on a FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE system acting as a firewall based on PF. FreeBSD servername 6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #0: Fri Nov 24 13:33:18 CET 2006 root@servername:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ALPHA i386 The trouble I have is that I get no data at all in the Pfstat data file! My Pfstat /etc/crontab entries # # Gather Pfstat output continually * * * * * root /usr/local/bin/pfstat -q >> /var/db/pfstat.db # # Generate Pfstat graphs every 5 minutes */5 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/pfstat -c /etc/pfstat.conf -d /var/db/pfstat.db # # Glean old Pfstat data 1 1 1 * * root /usr/local/bin/pfstat -t 31:365 Entries from my cron log: Dec 10 21:40:00 servername /usr/sbin/cron[39679]: (root) CMD ( /usr/libexec/atrun) Dec 10 21:41:00 servername /usr/sbin/cron[502]: (*system*) RELOAD (/etc/crontab) Dec 10 21:41:00 servername /usr/sbin/cron[39687]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/pfstat -q >> /var/db/pfstat.db) Dec 10 21:42:00 servername /usr/sbin/cron[39696]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/pfstat -q >> /var/db/pfstat.db) Dec 10 21:43:00 servername /usr/sbin/cron[39701]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/pfstat -q >> /var/db/pfstat.db) Dec 10 21:44:00 servername /usr/sbin/cron[39714]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/pfstat -q >> /var/db/pfstat.db) Dec 10 21:44:00 servername /usr/sbin/cron[39715]: (operator) CMD (/usr/libexec/save-entropy) Dec 10 21:45:00 servername /usr/sbin/cron[39734]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/pfstat -q >> /var/db/pfstat.db) Dec 10 21:45:00 servername /usr/sbin/cron[39735]: (root) CMD ( /usr/libexec/atrun) Dec 10 21:45:00 servername /usr/sbin/cron[39733]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/bin/pfstat -c /etc/pfstat.conf -d /var/db/pfstat.db) root@servername db # ll /var/db/pfstat.db -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Dec 10 21:21 /var/db/pfstat.db As you can see pfstat.db stays zero bytes! Anyone any idea why this is happening? My /etc/pf.conf has a set loginterface entry! MTIA. Cheers, Lars.