Vnstat in conky

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I have installed vnstat so it can run in my Conky. I get this message when I try to run it. I’m having no luck with the help and man page for it.

Error: Failed to open database “/var/lib/vnstat/vnstat.db” in read-only mode.
The vnStat daemon should have created the database when started.
Check that it is configured and running. See also “man vnstatd”.

Can anybody help me please.
Thanks
GaryB

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Well, did you…

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I could not see anything in the man page or help that helped.

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How about the Arch wiki entry for Vnstat then? It’s rather simple and straight to the point.

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This is how I got it working. Was a couple of years ago though.

sudo pacman -S vnstat

sudo systemctl start vnstat.service

sudo systemctl enable vnstat.service

Preferred network -
sudo vnstat --iflist

sudo vnstat -u -i ??? (from iflist above)

sudo vnstat -q (Should be working)

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I did it just didn’t seem to cover my problem.

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Yes that did it. Thank you

I just came back to Manjaro from Kubuntu and it’s a relearning curve.

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