Syslog FreeNAS 9.3

[Nick Townsend]

Hello,

I have recently upgraded FreeNAS from 8.3.1 to 9.3. I did this because on 8.3.1, log files were stored in /var/log which is in RAM, so I could not trouble shoot random reboots.

I have selected the option in the GUI to store syslog in my ZFS pool. I go to my ZFS pool via shell and cannot find any log files. I then went to /var/log, and all of my log files are still there. How do I get my log files to show up on a dataset like the manual says it should do.

Thanks.

 

[Ericloewe]

They're in the .system dataset. Don't mess around too much, or you might delete stuff that Samba needs.

 

[rogerh]

On my system at least /var/log is a symlink to the directory on which the system dataset is mounted. So you can read the logs from /var/log but they are actually on the system dataset, and will survive a reboot.