Mail error from newsyslog!

[Lucas Rey]

Hello,
this night FreeNAS 8.0.1 RC1 sent me two mails from "Cron <root@nas> newsyslog":

Code:

newsyslog: execl(`/usr/bin/bzip2 -f /var/log/maillog.0'): Exec format error
newsyslog: `bzip2 -f /var/log/maillog.0' terminated with a non-zero status (1)

Could you please explain what does it mean?

Also bzip2 give me the folllowing error:

Code:

[root@nas] ~# /usr/bin/bzip2 
gqmP: not found
¹½.,6³ßÝMýK)6ÚrNUWž*êœYˆ‰qÆÐ÷ïOI¨éwÞêÀ´Å1ßÜu6˜þS{ÇiÖ*Ye<²fü\[Ñë8lé+{vyâ5/”|Š¬p’DîYQ_Æñ1áXÓ¬VÁ2
                                                                                               üIþ«kþéÐyôgÊéÙŒ$œŸ¦3§xqh‚9³d*ª‘ÓÚ´Ús%.22Hµº„»¸éºÆ7¥Ç*1ËtÓ ü•67ÇæBm†Å¤“¾ÛÊl¦
#Œ”çÐmÞõ‚N7vövÃ~ÌŒ€)шZ+-4e)|Y,: not found://‹>p^7»î«¦
9ñÃ: not found
/usr/bin/bzip2: 4: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

Thank you.
Lucas

 

[ProtoSD]

Lucas,

It looks like a bug. There's a syntax error with this part, the quotation marks don't match.

`/usr/bin/bzip2 -f /var/log/maillog.0'

and also with this, the quotation marks don't match:

`bzip2 -f /var/log/maillog.0'

So bzip is trying to use an invalid file.

 

[Lucas Rey]

Well, thanks for reply protosd,
btw, since I believe it's not a critical error so I can ignore it.

And regarding bzip2 execution error?

 

[ProtoSD]

No, I don't think it's critical, just a problem in generating the email report. The bzip2 execution error is also a result of the syntax error with the quotation marks.

 

[Lucas Rey]

Is there a way to stop it? Today I received 4 mails! :-(