Bandwidthd problem

[kalu]

ditto.
Any updates ?

[Krakke]

on install i get this in the syslog
php: /pkg_edit.php: The command '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/bandwidthd.sh stop' returned exit code '1', the output was 'No matching processes were found'

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/bandwidthd.sh start
Syntax Error "syntax error" on line 32

However there is no line 32 in bandwidthd.sh  ???

Running 2.1-BETA1 (amd64)
built on Fri Feb 15 04:33:17 EST 2013
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p5

[phil.davis]

php: /pkg_edit.php: The command '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/bandwidthd.sh stop' returned exit code '1', the output was 'No matching processes were found'

That is no problem - when it tries to stop/start there will be no existing process running the first time, so that message comes out.

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/bandwidthd.sh start
Syntax Error "syntax error" on line 32

I have nanoBSD systems, and the bandwidthd install now writes a custom bandwidthd.sh for the nanobsd case that puts the bandwidthd output data into /var/bandwidthd - so that the CF card can be left readonly.
I had a look at the code that creates bandwidthd.sh for the other cases and can't see an obvious error.
Please post the bandwidthd package version (latest is 2.0.1.4) and the content of bandwidthd.sh - then I can track down what is going wrong.

[Krakke]

@phil.davis:

Please post the bandwidthd package version (latest is 2.0.1.4) and the content of bandwidthd.sh - then I can track down what is going wrong.

Oh my bad. The last line in the subnet settings text, "The subnet(s) on which bandwidthd will report. (separate with ';' for multiple subnets, e.g. 192.168.1.0/24;10.0.0.0/24)."The ordinary subnet for the selected interface/s is automatically put in the config, do not specify it here."
Well i had, and it gave me that error, now im running bandwithd without problems  ;)

So if anyone get
bandwidthd: Syntax Error "syntax error" on line 32
bandwidthd: Syntax Error "syntax error" on line 33
Check subnet config

[arriflex]

Alternatively, bandwidthd since version 2 can log to an external postgresql database. To test, I just set up bandwidthd on a local linux server with postgesql to catch bandwidthd logs from my Alix based nanobsd install of pfsense. I was able to get the linux install of bandwidthd working using postgresql for storage after a fair amount of newbie fanagling.

Presumably using bandwidthd as a 'forwarder' sort of like pfflowd instead of hosting the php and data files locally on a compact flash installation should conceivably alleviate some of the issues?

Unfortunately, I am unable to persist changes to the bandwidthd.conf file for obvious reasons. How does one properly modify config files that are subject to the pfsense GUI?

arri

ps. Sullrich attached the readme file from bandwidthd here: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,2117.msg23881.html#msg23881 note the section on database support for more information.

[phil.davis]

The bandwidthd package consists of the bandwidthd tbz/pbi of the "real" software, plus the pfSense PHP and xml in GitHub at:
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-packages/tree/master/config/bandwidthd
That code generates the conf file and controls the start/stop…
If you can give it an option to pass the data to another system, feel free to mod the code and submit a pull request. That would certainly be beneficial for nanoBSD CF installs.

[arriflex]

Phil, I am going to attempt to respond to your suggestion and would very much appreciate some guidance regarding my progress in a new thread: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,64790.msg351425.html#msg351425

arri

[nirovulf]

Try change<url>/bandwidthd" target="_blank</url>->```
<url>/bandwidthd/index.html" target="_blank</url>

After that I can watch statistics normally :)

[phil.davis]

@nirovulf - what browser+version+settings are you using?
I am using Firefox (23.0.1). That displays the index.html automatically, without needing it specified. We can easily put your change into the bandwidthd package, as it should not do any harm. I would just like to know what environment causes the problem.

[nirovulf]

phil.davis
I use Firefox 19.0.2, pfsense version: 2.0.3-RELEASE (i386)
built on Fri Apr 12 10:22:21 EDT 2013
FreeBSD pfsense.router 8.1-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p13 #0: Fri Apr 12 10:47:01 EDT 2013 root@snapshots-8_1-i386.builders.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.8 i386
Settings: interface - LAN, checked output_cdf, recover_cdf, draw_graphs; Meta Refresh set to 120. All other settings are default

[phil.davis]

I am a bit surprised that your Firefox does not go looking for index.html by default. But anyway, it is safer for all old/new/whatever browsers if we explicitly specify index.html like you suggest.
Pull request: https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-packages/pull/483
30 minutes after that is committed you should be able to reinstall bandwidthd XML and it will work.

[cboy2]

How about editing /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bandwidthd.sh to point at /usr/pbi/bandwidthd-amd64/bandwidthd/bandwidthd instead of /usr/local/bandwidthd/bandwidthd?

[phil.davis]

@cboy2:

How about editing /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bandwidthd.sh to point at /usr/pbi/bandwidthd-amd64/bandwidthd/bandwidthd instead of /usr/local/bandwidthd/bandwidthd?

This code in bandwidthd.inc "should" select/use the new PBI-based directory names based on the pfSense version (>2.0 means it has PBI) and 32 or 64-bit install.

// Check pfSense version
$pfs_version = substr(trim(file_get_contents("/etc/version")),0,3);
switch ($pfs_version) {
  case "1.2":
  case "2.0":
    define('PKG_BANDWIDTHD_BASE', '/usr/local/bandwidthd');
    break;
  default:
    define('PKG_BANDWIDTHD_BASE', '/usr/pbi/bandwidthd-' . php_uname("m") . '/bandwidthd');
 }
// End: Check pfSense version

I don't have a 64-bit install to try. What happens now on pfSense 2.1-RELEASE 64-bit?
Post the bandwidthd.sh that it makes, then hopefully I can see what happens.

[cboy2]

`#!/bin/sh

This file was automatically generated

by the pfSense service handler.

rc_start() {
/usr/local/bandwidthd/bandwidthd
}

rc_stop() {
/usr/bin/killall bandwidthd
}

case $1 in
start)
rc_start
;;
stop)
rc_stop
;;
restart)
rc_stop
rc_start
;;
esac`   I've had this issue on two different 64 bit systems and one 32 (all I have tried) all running 2.1 or a RC thereof.

[phil.davis]

Now I really looked at the code! It has never worked for a 2.1 PBI-based full install.
Edit /usr/local/pkg/bandwidthd.inc to change line 324 from:

/usr/local/bandwidthd/bandwidthd

to

{$bandwidthd_base_dir}/bandwidthd

like in this GitHub change: https://github.com/phil-davis/pfsense-packages/commit/c918257082611cc9d9e9f9987a0a317d629885d7

That should make it understand full installs for 2.0.n and 2.1 in both i386 and amd64.

Then save your bandwidthd settings again and check that bandwidth.sh has better code, and that bandwidthd actually works.
If all is well, I will submit the pull request.

[freehood4all]

@kalu:

Hello every one

I have the latest pfsense build installed:
–--------------------
2.1-DEVELOPMENT (i386)
built on Wed May 2 08:30:27 EDT 2012
FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE

installed the latest bandwidthd
–-----------------------
"bandwidthd 2.0.1.3"

and it always shows me Please start bandwidthd to populate this directory.
I searched in this forum and was not able to find a proper solution
Thanks
kalu

To anyone running into "Please start bandwidthd to populate this directory."

First check to see if it's running:

ps auxwww | grep -i bandwidthd

If it's running check the directory:

ls -al /usr/local/www/bandwidthd
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    43 Sep 16 12:41 /usr/local/www/bandwidthd -> /usr/pbi/bandwidthd-amd64/bandwidthd/htdocs

I can see that the actual files aren't being written there.

Check this directory:

ls -al /usr/local/bandwidthd/htdocs/

If you see files in there, all you need to do is make the correct link

rm /usr/local/www/bandwidthd

ln -s /usr/local/bandwidthd/htdocs/ /usr/local/www/bandwidthd

Note: I ended up installing bandwidthd from pkg_add because I ran into issues originally, so my way is definitely non-standard.  And this probably only affects people who updated through the 2.1 beta, RC development cycle.  I'm sure stable has this working out of the box.

[pkrnjevic]

Just a comment freehood4all's note:

"Note: I ended up installing bandwidthd from pkg_add because I ran into issues originally, so my way is definitely non-standard.  And this probably only affects people who updated through the 2.1 beta, RC development cycle.  I'm sure stable has this working out of the box."
If I read your note right, you suggest that stable versions shouldn't have this problem.
I updated from a recently installed 2.0.3Release to 2.1Release, and definitely do have this problem.

Phil.davis describes a fix (previous comment in this thread) that mostly works, except for missing icons.

[walkman]

Hi, I noticed that this only happens when I use firfox, not chrome or IE.

Thanks

[xerxes]

@freehood4all:

To anyone running into "Please start bandwidthd to populate this directory."

First check to see if it's running:

ps auxwww | grep -i bandwidthd

If it's running check the directory:

ls -al /usr/local/www/bandwidthd
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    43 Sep 16 12:41 /usr/local/www/bandwidthd -> /usr/pbi/bandwidthd-amd64/bandwidthd/htdocs

Check this directory:

ls -al /usr/local/bandwidthd/htdocs/

If you see files in there, all you need to do is make the correct link

rm /usr/local/www/bandwidthd

ln -s /usr/local/bandwidthd/htdocs/ /usr/local/www/bandwidthd

This one works for me.. Thanks.

[smilodon]

This last method did not work for me.
I also upgraded.. from 2.0.3 to 2.1 and had bandwidthd previously installed.

So for me this was the fix:

#First remove the package via GUI.

killall bandwidthd #Just incase it still runs.

find / -name "bandwidthd" #You get a list of files and directories related to Bandw.D.

#Now delete all of them..
rm -rf /directory/you/find

#I also removed these.., which seem to be packages..
/root/var/db/pbi/installed/bandwidthd-2.0.1_5-i386
/root/var/db/pbi/.hashqueue/bandwidthd-2.0.1_5-i386

Now install it again via GUI and it worked for me.