I broke pftop command

nantax

I was setting up the Traffic Shaper and I read that it is more accurate to check for the queues using pftop.
I tried running it from the console and pressing the left arrow but it only shows:
pfTop: Up Queue no entries

I tried following the suggestion of re installing pftop by:
pkg_add -r pftop

Now when I run pftop again, i get this:
> Error Reading status (DIOCGETSTATUS): Permission denied

How do I fix this?

nantax

when I ran the pkg_add -r it was fetching the file from freebsd.org:
Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.3-release/Latest/pftop.tbz… Done.

Maybe pfSense is using its own and I would like to know how to get it.

Exactly the same problem as mine:
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,32718.0.html

stephenw10

You are running 2.1 I assume?

Steve

nantax

Version 2.1-BETA1 (i386)
built on Thu May 9 15:37:21 EDT 2013
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p8

jimp

pftop is built into the firmware images, we don't put out a separate tbz style package for it. If you do a firmware upgrade, it would include a new copy of pftop.

nantax

Thanks! I will just wait for the next snapshot then. :)