CentOS vnstat error: Unable to create database backup

12 Jan 2010 CentOS Trackback

On CentOS 5.4, the vnstat cron job generates an error:

Error: Unable create database backup "/var/lib/vnstat/.venet0".

By default, vnstat cron job runs as “nobody”, yet the database file “/var/lib/vnstat/venet0″ was owned by root, changing its ownership to “nobody”, fixed the problem:

chown nobody:nobody /var/lib/vnstat/*

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