From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 16:24:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linus.highpoint.edu (linus.highpoint.edu [192.154.46.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E904737B401 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:24:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from zhartley@localhost) by linus.highpoint.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f94NNUX21476 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:23:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:23:30 -0400 From: Zach Hartley To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Resetting net counters in daily run output Message-ID: <20011004192330.A21457@linus.highpoint.edu> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <63212.1002189031@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <200110042210.f94MAnD38788@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200110042210.f94MAnD38788@home.com>; from mcbrune@home.com on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 05:10:49PM -0500 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 Are you talking about counters from ipfw? If memory serves me, you can start the numbers over for ipfw with 'ipfw zero'. HTH Zach Around Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 05:10:49PM -0500, mcbrune thus spake the following: > 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 -- Zachary Todd Hartley "Attempted murder. Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?" --Sideshow Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message