Message from newsyslog?

[larzeb]

FreeNAS-9.2.1.8-RELEASE-x64 (e625626)

I am a new user to FreeNAS. I am getting an email every hour with the following subject:

Cron <root@hostname> newsyslog
​

and the following content:

usage: pstat [-Tfghkmnst] [-M core [-N system]]​

Where is this cron job defined? What is the meaning of this email's content?

Thanks for any help, Larry

 

[larzeb]

This is nuts! This message comes every hour on the hour. What can I do to stop it?

 

[cyberjock]

I don't know but I'd guess one of two things:

1. Your install of FreeNAS is corrupt
2. You've edited files and they don't work properly anymore.

That error definitely isn't normal for FreeNAS and I can't even tell you what is generating the error because of the vagueness of the message.

 

[larzeb]

I haven't edited any files. Suggestions on how I might recover?

Backup config, re-install FreeNAS and load config?

 

[cyberjock]

I haven't edited any files. Suggestions on how I might recover?

Backup config, re-install FreeNAS and load config?

Actually, I'd try installing FreeNAS to different media and then upload your config and see what happens.

 

[larzeb]

cyberjock, should I save the current configuration and load it on the new media? Is it possible the configuration itself might be corrupt?

 

[Ericloewe]

cyberjock, should I save the current configuration and load it on the new media? Is it possible the configuration itself might be corrupt?

It's quite possible, but might as well give it a try before declaring it corrupt.

 

[larzeb]

I am sorry to ask the following newbie questions.

I do have another FreeNAS thumb drive which I created before this error
message via dd on a linux box. So the single ZFS volume defined in this
earlier drive may not have all of the datasets and shares of the current
configuration.

Can I import the volume to force it to the current volume configuration?
How do I get the shares back, redefine them manually?

Thanks