On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 05:34:44PM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > Anyone have a recommendation for a lightweight daemon (I don't > need anything fancy like cacti) to monitor total bandwidth usage? > Give vnstat a try. It works well. $ apt-cache show vnstat Package: vnstat Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 284 Maintainer: Iulian Udrea <iulian@ubuntu.com> Architecture: i386 Version: 1.10-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7) Suggests: vnstati Filename: pool/main/v/vnstat/vnstat_1.10-1_i386.deb Size: 80912 MD5sum: f9bafb4d1bef7c246c40363e5378b91e SHA1: 63427b777e2e7646b1c2d41916a57d990cfa07fe SHA256: de5ff5f078272211bffdad5642412b5981bd0ccafa3cbbc6aeb49220d40a601a Description: console-based network traffic monitor vnStat is a network traffic monitor for Linux. It keeps a log of daily network traffic for the selected interface(s). vnStat is not a packet sniffer. The traffic information is analyzed from the /proc filesystem, so vnStat can be used without root permissions. Homepage: http://humdi.net/vnstat/ Tag: admin::monitoring, interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, use::monitor Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. GPG KeyID : F6A35935 Fingerprint: D172 22C4 7CDC D9CD 62B5 55C1 2A69 D5D8 F6A3 5935 The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
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