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      phil.davis
      last edited by

      I just checked installing fresh on a new system. The initial "Please start bandwidthd to populate this directory." page is found at index.html, and after a while index.html is updated with the daily data.
      I now have the following in /usr/local/www/bandwidthd

      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2230 Dec 13 13:33 10.49.143.1-1-R.png
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2207 Dec 13 13:33 10.49.143.1-1-S.png
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2636 Dec 13 13:33 Subnet-1-10.49.143.0.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2242 Dec 13 13:26 Subnet-2-10.49.143.0.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2245 Dec 13 13:16 Subnet-3-10.49.143.0.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2242 Dec 13 13:33 Total-1-R.png
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2244 Dec 13 13:33 Total-1-S.png
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2587 Dec 13 13:26 Total-2-R.png
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2646 Dec 13 13:26 Total-2-S.png
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1844 Dec 13 13:16 Total-3-R.png
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1853 Dec 13 13:16 Total-3-S.png
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3323 Dec 13 13:33 index.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2939 Dec 13 13:26 index2.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2948 Dec 13 13:16 index3.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   653 Dec 13 12:16 index4.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1649 Dec 13 11:51 legend.gif
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  7573 Dec 13 11:51 logo.gif

      @rsleegers - If you can reproduce this, what does your system have in /usr/local/www/bandwidthd ?

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        rsleegers
        last edited by

        @phil.davis:

        @rsleegers - If you can reproduce this, what does your system have in /usr/local/www/bandwidthd ?

        Yes, after a day or so (I think more than a day), the tab/link worked without modifying.

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          millimetrix
          last edited by

          @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

          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.

          Nice one freehood4all your fix worked for me on a Netgate box running pfSense 2.1 (amd64).
          thanks

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            rott
            last edited by

            Hello all

            I installed the bandwidthd package today.
            the installation went right but after that it s now impossible to access the Webgui.
            My network is good, so pfSence is still running.
            Did someone meet this problem??

            Thx

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              hugo
              last edited by

              I cant get bandwidthd working either.
              I upgraded from 2.0.3 to 2.1, and it didnt work.

              @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.

              I tried this, no luck. Rebooted, restarted package, same thing. In System log it says:
              php: /status_services.php: The command '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/bandwidthd.sh stop' returned exit code '1', the output was 'No matching processes were found'
              bandwidthd: log.1.0.cdf is corrupted, skipping

              when going to bandwidthd it says:
              bandwidthd has nothing to graph. This message should be replaced by graphs in a few minutes. If it's not, please see the section titled "Known Bugs and Troubleshooting" in the README

              in /usr/pbi/bandwidthd-i386/bandwidthd there is the log file, but it is empty…
              -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      0 Mar  2 13:59 log.1.0.cdf

              Am i doing something wrong or does anyone know how to fix it?
              Thank you.

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                cworsham
                last edited by

                I'm getting the following error when attempting to start Bandwidthd:
                Error: Syntax Error "syntax error" on line 58

                Build info:
                pfSense 2.1-RELEASE (amd64)
                built on Wed Sep 11 18:17:48 EDT 2013
                FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p11
                Bandwidthd 2.0.1_5 pkg v.0.3

                This is a fresh install and I'm trying to log to a psgdb.
                Database tests confirm that the DB is up, with the correct schema, and accessible.

                Conf file output (edited for anonymity):
                subnet 10.x.x.x 255.255.255.0
                dev "em0"
                promiscuous false
                filter "ip"
                graph false
                pgsql_connect_string "user = bandwidthd dbname = bandwidthd password = xxxxxxx host = xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
                sensor_id "proxy01.xxx.local"

                Anyone have any ideas?

                Thanks

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                  rcampbell
                  last edited by

                  The fix seems to be here:
                  https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=78175

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                    tojaktoty
                    last edited by

                    Edit: found info on 2.2 problems here: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=84642.0

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