Open VPN pere road warrior stats can be a pain and can be removed by the following steps (a knowledge of Linux is required) :
enable ssh access
log into your ipfire machine
su to root if you haven’t logged in a such (why is sshing in as root even possible?).
run /etc/init.d/collectd stop
cd /var/log/rrd/collectd/localhost to where the files are
rm -r the appropriately named directory(ies) (be sure you are certain you have have not make an error in the command…it can be very destructive)
If worried:
6.1) cd in to the appropriately named directory
6.2) rm the files there one at a time
6.3) cd …
6.4) rmdir the appropriately named directory
6.5) run /etc/init.d/collectd start
6.5) check the result is as expected.
6.6) run /etc/init.d/collectd stop
6.6) repeat as needed.
run /etc/init.d/collectd start
NOTE: this is a not a perfect solution, but does work. In my experience.
note: all command line stuff is copied, so my bad typing/spelling will not effect them. sorry for my bad english…I’m kinda a semi-glot. (only do one language…but not so good @ it )
/etc/init.d/collectd stop
/etc/init.d/vnstat stop <== ONLY IF NEEDED
rm -rf /var/log/rrd/* <== PUT FILES YOU WANT TO DELETE HERE
rm -f /var/log/vnstat/* <== ONLY IF NEEDED
/etc/init.d/collectd start
/etc/init.d/vnstat start <== ONLY IF NEEDED
This problem has been covered a few times before - if in doubt, use forum search…
rm -rf /var/log/rrd/* ..yeah no one is going to wonder what happened if they read do the rote thing...
rm -r is dangerous ..-rf is insane.
rm -rf /anything/* anywhere is dangerous..never tell people to do that, rm -r is risky enough, you never know if they have a hard or symbolic link somewhere..
If you don’t know linux well…rm -rf… is basically a ICMB nuke war (be extremely sure when you use it…it will nuke your system (and brick some)) if you typo…don’t use that…basically it is never a good idea. rm -r if you screw up…less bad…but not so good.
-r means recursive (so will run up any directory tree…but linux will stop it doing really stupid things)
-f means force…yeah it will nuke anything
-rf means if you typo it will wipe out anything…never use that unless your damn sure you know exactly what your doing…I have never used it and I’m an admin/sysop.