GUI Button for collection of /var/log

[tomekadascientiam]

When I troubleshoot my lil FreeNAS I typicaly dump a lot of my inquires into /var/log

ex:

cat /etc/version > /var/log/version.txt
cat /etc/resolv.conf > /var/log/resolv.txt
cat /etc/hosts > /var/log/hosts.txt
cat /etc/exports > /var/log/exports.txt
showmount -e > /var/log/showmount.txt

Then I wrap it up into a nice little package with a pretty bow on top by using the following command:
tar cvjf /tmp/mylog.txz /var/log

Then I have to scp mylog.txz off my FreeNAS

What would make things so much easier would be for FreeNAS to have a GUI button to collect /var/log just like we can now do for the freenas debug.

 

[tomekadascientiam]

I created a feature request for this one too.

Feature #3284 GUI Button for collection of /var/log

 

[Whattteva]

I just use the shell and tail -f (or multitail if you want to get fancy).
Relatively little to no hassle process and offers real-time monitoring.

 

[cyberjock]

You know, if you create a dataset called "syslog" it'll dump the logs there. Just share that folder and you can do whatever you want to the logs remotely....

 

[Yatti420]

You know, if you create a dataset called "syslog" it'll dump the logs there. Just share that folder and you can do whatever you want to the logs remotely....

Really? With no editing of configs? Is it really that easy? I never knew this or saw it in the docs.. I always accessed stuff via /var/log..

 

[tomekadascientiam]

cyberjock,

The idea of creating a dataset on my zpool called "syslog"rocks. This would not only make the logs persistent across reboots it would solve the file systems full errs I used to get. I hate cleaning out rrds. What would you do use a symlink?

 

[pirateghost]

cyberjock,

The idea of creating a dataset on my zpool called "syslog"rocks. This would not only make the logs persistent across reboots it would solve the file systems full errs I used to get. I hate cleaning out rrds. What would you do use a symlink?

You don't have to do anything but create the dataset and reboot

 

[warri]

The syslog dataset it was mentioned by a dev here: http://forums.freenas.org/threads/for-the-first-time-im-actually-using-freenas.14939/
I definitely agree that it should be documented, though. Most users don't know about this feature.

 

[Dusan]

I definitely agree that it should be documented, though.

It already is documented ;) : http://doc.freenas.org/index.php?title=Settings&curid=18&diff=9718&oldid=9270

 

[tomekadascientiam]

Way cool:
This is currently a WIP and will be included in the next FreeNAS release.