Shell Script To Build and Install vnstat Network Traffic Monitor

#!/bin/bash
# A Shell Script To Build vnstat software which is act as a console-based 
# network traffic monitor without using 3rd party repo.
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Tested under CentOS / RHEL / Fedora Linux only.
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (c) 2008 nixCraft project <http://cyberciti.biz/fb/>
# This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC)
# Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information.
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Last updated on Mar/05/2010
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Software Home page: http://humdi.net/vnstat/
# -------------------------------------------------------
VERSION="-1.10"
URL="http://humdi.net/vnstat/vnstat${VERSION}.tar.gz"
FILE="${URL##*/}"
DLHOME="/opt"
SOFTWARE="vnstat"
DEST="${FILE%.tar.gz}"
ETH="eth0"

[[ "$2" != "" ]] && ETH="$2"

[[ `id -u` -ne 0 ]] && { echo "$0: You must be root user to run this script. Run it as 'sudo $0'"; exit 1; }

case "$1" in
    download) 
        wget $URL -O "${DLHOME}/$FILE"
        ;;
    build) 
        echo "Building ${SOFTWARE}...."
        [[ ! -f "${DLHOME}/$FILE" ]] &&  wget $URL -O "${DLHOME}/$FILE"
        cd "${DLHOME}"
        tar -zxvf $FILE
        cd "$DEST"
        make
        make install
        [[ ! -f /etc/cron.d/vnstat.cron ]] && /bin/cp -f example/vnstat.cron /etc/cron.d/vnstat
        for i in $ETH
        do
            /usr/bin/vnstat -u -i "$i"
        done
        ;;
    *) echo "Usage: $0 {download|build} [eth0|eth1|eth2|ppp0]"
esac

#!/bin/bash

# A Shell Script To Build vnstat software which is act as a console-based

# network traffic monitor without using 3rd party repo.

# -------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Tested under CentOS / RHEL / Fedora Linux only.

# -------------------------------------------------------------------------

# This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above

# -------------------------------------------------------------------------

# This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC)

# Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information.

# -------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Last updated on Mar/05/2010

# -------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Software Home page: http://humdi.net/vnstat/

# -------------------------------------------------------

VERSION="-1.10"

URL="http://humdi.net/vnstat/vnstat${VERSION}.tar.gz"

FILE="${URL##*/}"

DLHOME="/opt"

SOFTWARE="vnstat"

DEST="${FILE%.tar.gz}"

ETH="eth0"

[[ "$2" != "" ]] && ETH="$2"

[[ `id -u` -ne 0 ]] && { echo "$0: You must be root user to run this script. Run it as 'sudo $0'"; exit 1; }

case "$1" in

download)

wget $URL -O "${DLHOME}/$FILE"

;;

build)

echo "Building ${SOFTWARE}...."

[[ ! -f "${DLHOME}/$FILE" ]] && wget $URL -O "${DLHOME}/$FILE"

cd "${DLHOME}"

tar -zxvf $FILE

cd "$DEST"

make

make install

[[ ! -f /etc/cron.d/vnstat.cron ]] && /bin/cp -f example/vnstat.cron /etc/cron.d/vnstat

for i in $ETH

/usr/bin/vnstat -u -i "$i"

done

;;

*) echo "Usage: $0 {download|build} [eth0|eth1|eth2|ppp0]"

esac

vnstat

From the man page:

vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor. It keeps a log of hourly, daily and monthly network traffic for the selected interface(s). However, it isn’t a packet sniffer. The traffic information is analyzed from the proc(5) and sys filesystems depending on availability. That way vnStat can be used even without root permissions on most systems.

How Do I Use This Script?

Simply download and runt it as follows:
./script.sh download ./script.sh build vnstat

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Shell Script To Build and Install vnstat Network Traffic Monitor

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