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#21

25.7, 25.10 Series / Re: [SOLVED] hostwatch at 100%...

Last post by franco - Today at 11:19:26 AM

Thanks for testing! <3

sqlite db is /var/db/hostwatch/hosts.db

latest symlink is added by a cron job or

# configctl syslog archive


Cheers,
Franco

#22

25.7, 25.10 Series / Re: What is the official migra...

Last post by knebb - Today at 11:08:21 AM

Hi,

I just migrated from ISC to KEA. It was smoothless.

Configured basic things like DNS and NTP.

On the ISC top left of the static lease list (looks like a calc sheet) to export the configured static leases.
In KEA import the csv as reservations and it worked out of the box!

I had some understanding problem with the default gateway- but this is taken from the interface address on OPNSense.

/KNEBB

#23

25.7, 25.10 Series / Re: [SOLVED] hostwatch at 100%...

Last post by OPNenthu - Today at 11:06:16 AM

The symlink appeared again after some time :)

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root@firewall:/var/log/hostwatch # ls -l
total 8
-rw-------  1 root wheel 7941 Jan 22 04:39 hostwatch_20260122.log
lrwxr-x---  1 root wheel   41 Jan 22 05:01 latest.log -> /var/log/hostwatch/hostwatch_20260122.log


#24

25.7, 25.10 Series / Re: [SOLVED] hostwatch at 100%...

Last post by OPNenthu - Today at 10:53:53 AM

Installed 1.0.6 also.

The previous trigger on my system that caused it to spike the CPU was when I toggled some WG instances.  Did the same just now and it didn't cause hostwatch to go haywire.  Just some errors logged, but otherwise CPU is idling.

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2026-01-22T09:32:32.553239Z ERROR hostwatch: Error reading from capture: libpcap error: The interface disappeared, exit wg2
2026-01-22T09:32:32.533231Z ERROR hostwatch: Error reading from capture: libpcap error: The interface disappeared, exit wg1
2026-01-22T09:32:32.513240Z ERROR hostwatch: Error reading from capture: libpcap error: The interface disappeared, exit wg0
2026-01-22T09:23:31.644128Z WARN hostwatch: Failed to initialize capture for device: pfsync0
2026-01-22T09:23:31.643592Z WARN hostwatch: Failed to initialize capture for device: usbus0

I won't comment on disk writes because I don't know what my baseline is.  I'll just say that I see some writes (nda0), but the hostwatch log is <8 kB.

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root@firewall:/var/log/hostwatch # iostat -x
                        extended device statistics 
device       r/s     w/s     kr/s     kw/s  ms/r  ms/w  ms/o  ms/t qlen  %b 
mmcsd0         0       0      0.2      0.0     0     0     0     0    0   0
mmcsd0bo       0       0      0.0      0.0     0     0     0     0    0   0
mmcsd0bo       0       0      0.0      0.0     0     0     0     0    0   0
nda0           2       4     38.6    109.3     0     0     2     0    0   0
pass0          0       0      0.0      0.0     0     0     0     0    0   0


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root@firewall:/var/log/hostwatch # ls -l
total 8
-rw-------  1 root wheel 7941 Jan 22 04:39 hostwatch_20260122.log

Couple questions:

- Where is the sqlite db?
- There was previously a 'latest.log' symlink in this directory which is now gone.  Can we not rely on that symlink being there for Monit test purposes?

#25

Virtual private networks / Re: os-softether-devel (miscon...

Last post by elfrom - Today at 10:49:26 AM

I added it today on my repo.

Thank you.
Just wanted to chime in, we use SoftEther with great success.
We use it for SSTP, the built in Windows VPN client and Azure Radius on NPS for authentication, very good performance and extremely stabile.

Best regards
Elfrom

#26

25.7, 25.10 Series / Re: [SOLVED] hostwatch at 100%...

Last post by Patrick M. Hausen - Today at 10:41:28 AM

Running 1.0.6 now. Limiting interfaces works. No problems so far.

#27

Documentation and Translation / Re: Section(s) repeated twice ...

Last post by Monviech (Cedrik) - Today at 10:35:30 AM

Fixed. Thanks

https://github.com/opnsense/docs/pull/839

#28

25.7, 25.10 Series / Re: [SOLVED] hostwatch at 100%...

Last post by drclaw - Today at 10:30:56 AM

Ok I just applied the hotfix above to my OPNsense 25.7.11_1-amd64 VM running on Proxmox - my VM was impacted by this and filled up ~4gb of logs in /var/log/hostwatch in the last few days.

I have re-enabled Neighbours: Automatic Discovery - things seem ok, but I will keep an eye on it.

#29

Documentation and Translation / Re: Catalan Translation

Last post by franco - Today at 10:20:45 AM

Yes, but always keep "%s" around the text being translated to retain context. This is mostly used to inject HTML links into the text.


Cheers,
Franco

#30

25.7, 25.10 Series / Re: CALL FOR TESTING: IPv6 imp...

Last post by OPNenthu - Today at 10:13:36 AM

Ah!  Didn't notice I had dropped it.  All looks fine.