ntopng on FreeBSD - Help with autostart

deanfourie

So, ive gone ahead and installed ntopng from the website documents alongside pfSense as the pfSense package installer just never worked for me.

Its installed and running smoothly, the only thing I am unsure of how to do is to autostart redis and ntopng on boot. Upon every boot I need to run

service redis start
service ntopng start

Is there a way I can auto start these 2 services on boot?

Thanks

keyser

@deanfourie said in ntopng on FreeBSD - Help with autostart:

So, ive gone ahead and installed ntopng from the website documents alongside pfSense as the pfSense package installer just never worked for me.

Its installed and running smoothly, the only thing I am unsure of how to do is to autostart redis and ntopng on boot. Upon every boot I need to run

service redis start
service ntopng start

Is there a way I can auto start these 2 services on boot?

Thanks

If you are on 22.01/2.6 and do not want to upgrade to 22.05/2.7, and can highly recommend installing NtopNG using my guide here instead:

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/172084/a-guide-to-current-ntopng-on-pfsense-2-6-22-01/24

That uses the NtopNG pfsense package wrapper to give you control and start/use NtopNG as intended.

But I just upgraded to 22.05/2.7, and the pfsense NtopNG package there contains a very recent release from the 5.2 stable branch - which works beautifully and is very stable. So I recommend using that approach instead of going “manually installed”