Pi-Hole 5.1 - pihole -c (bug)

[Carl_Andrews]

If I put this in the wrong place, I apologize. Not certain how to submit a bug.

I just updated to 5.1 and pihole -c shows FTL offline.

I have looked at the code and the reason is the file /var/run/pihole-FTL.port is empty.
If you populate the file with the correct informaton, then pihole -c will work

echo 4711 > /var/run/pihole-FTL.port
pihole -c

[yubiuser]

Please post solution here as well:
https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/issues/3558#issuecomment-659520246

[DanSchaper]

Thanks! Nice catch!

[DanSchaper]

Certain stats not properly displaying in PADD v3.2.2

[fleegle61]

Bada bing! That did the trick. 1st time it wouldnt run so I had to sudo su 1st then run the echo and that worked nicely.

Thanks

[bkdoubles]

Ditto with the "sudo su" to make the edit.

Thanks everyone!

[pavanmadem]

Having the same issue with docker . Updated this file file with root but no luck .

echo 4711 > /var/snap/docker/common/var-lib-docker/overlay2/5f8552d8ed105df51274e390cf1/diff/run/pihole-FTL.port

[pavanmadem]

UPDATE :Clearing cache resolved the issue

[DanSchaper]

Use

echo 4711 | sudo tee /var/run/pihole-FTL.port

Root is needed to write the file.