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Expected Behaviour:
command pihole -c works
Actual Behaviour:
pinhole -c says FTL offline:
Pi-hole Chronometer
Press Ctrl-C to exit
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Hostname: pi (Ubuntu Fossa 20.04)
Uptime: 4 days, 11:19:34
Task Load: 0.06 0.16 0.13 (Active: 4 of 53 tasks)
CPU usage: 2% (4x 1.5 GHz @ 102f)
RAM usage: 28% (Used: 1 GB of 4 GB)
HDD usage: 20% (Used: 5 GB of 29 GB)
LAN addr: 192.168.10.20 (Gateway: 192.168.10.1)
Pi-hole: Active (Blocking: 0 sites)
Ads Today: 0% (Total: 0 of 0)
Local Qrys: 0% (2 DNS servers)
Blocked: FTL offline
Top Advert:
Top Domain:
Top Client: ^C
pi@pi:~$ pihole status
[✓] DNS service is running
[✓] Pi-hole blocking is Enabled
pi@pi:~$ sudo service pihole-FTL status
● pihole-FTL.service - LSB: pihole-FTL daemon
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL; generated)
Active: active (exited) since Thu 2020-07-16 05:51:58 PDT; 1h 12min ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 2113106 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/pihole-FTL start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Jul 16 05:51:58 pi systemd[1]: Starting LSB: pihole-FTL daemon...
Jul 16 05:51:58 pi pihole-FTL[2113106]: Not running
Jul 16 05:51:58 pi su[2113130]: (to pihole) root on none
Jul 16 05:51:58 pi su[2113130]: pam_unix(su:session): session opened for user pihole by (uid=0)
Jul 16 05:51:58 pi su[2113130]: pam_unix(su:session): session closed for user pihole
Jul 16 05:51:58 pi systemd[1]: Started LSB: pihole-FTL daemon.
pi@pi:~$
Running on a RPI 4 with Ubuntu 20.04