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    I broke pftop command

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    • N
      nantax
      last edited by

      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?

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        nantax
        last edited by

        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

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          You are running 2.1 I assume?

          Steve

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            nantax
            last edited by

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

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            • jimpJ
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by

              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.

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                nantax
                last edited by

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

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