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<h1>This page will show you what commands you need to run after one-click install of vnStat</h1>
First, open up terminal and login as root:
<code>su - root</code>
<i>At this time the commands have to be run in root. Sorry for any inconvinence</i>
<h2>After you have done that, do the following commands in order:</h2>
<strong>Creates the /var/lib/vnstat/eth0 file with root:root:</strong>
<code>vnstat -i eth0 -u
chown vnstat:vnstat /var/lib/vnstat/*eth0</code>
<strong>Creates the /var/lib/vnstat/.eth0 file:</strong>
<code>vnstat -i eth0 -u
chown vnstat:vnstat /var/lib/vnstat/*eth0</code>
<strong>Enables updates every minute:</strong>
<code>sed -i -e 's/# \*\/5/\*/' /etc/cron.d/vnstat</code>
Now go to http://vnstat and view all of your bandwidth stats.