From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 15:11:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.com (c1737881-a.plano1.tx.home.com [65.10.46.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB9037B407 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:11:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mcbrune@localhost) by home.com (8.11.6/8.11.4) id f94MAnD38788; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 17:10:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mcbrune) From: mcbrune Message-Id: <200110042210.f94MAnD38788@home.com> Subject: Re: Resetting net counters in daily run output In-Reply-To: <63212.1002189031@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> To: Sheldon Hearn Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 17:10:49 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL92 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The only way to reset the counters (that I know about) is to reboot. The kernel keeps these counters, and unless the numbers grow so large to roll over, they will not decrement. Corey > > Hi folks, > > Is there a way to reset the net counters shown in daily run output? > > I manage several systems and read their daily run output every morning. > Since I read several messages at once, the numbers are meaningless as > absolute values. If they were reset every day on reading, the relative > values shown would make more sense. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message