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Topic: how to change vnstat output directory?

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Post #1
michaelcasey73
17 May 2009, 00:20

How can I change vnstat output dir "/var/lib/vnstat" to something else?

I already tried to modify the

"LIB_D=/var/lib/vnstat"

dir in the

"/etc/init.d/vnstat"

file but it didn't helped.

The problem is why I want to change the folder is that when I reboot the router the "/var/lib/vnstat" disappears, because "/var" is a directory to /tmp/.
And that's a problem sad , because I will loose alll my traffic statistics when a reboot comes... sad

I use OpenWrt Kamikaze 8.09

Thank you

Post #2
swalker
17 May 2009, 02:01

I'd try extracting the vnstat.conf from http://humdi.net/vnstat/vnstat-1.6.tar.gz to <OpenWrt>/etc/vnstat.conf and changing the DatabaseDir config option.

The init script is only used to download a vnstat backup database from a http server.

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