Persistent messages logs (surviving reboot)

[djoole]

[solved] Persistent messages logs (surviving reboot)

Hi,
My NAS has recently crashed. I could ping it, but no longer SSH it, and couldn't access it in any ways.
So i had to hard reboot it, and after that everything went fine, but as logs are not saved, i can't investigate on the crash problem.

Is there any way to make the logs (/var/logs/messages) persistent, like in any other system?

Thanks for helping

 

[peterh]

add a syslog server ( an external computer running syslog)

 

[djoole]

No thanks, i'm not going to add another 24/7 server in my home just to get the logs of my NAS!
I'm looking for a way to configure FreeNAS 8 so that logs are persistent, or placed in my zpool.

 

[peterh]

You could configure your syslog to log into one of the filesystems in the pool

 

[djoole]

How can i do that please?

 

[William Grzybowski]

The workaround for now is modifying /conf/base/etc/syslog.conf and reboot
(wont survive upgrades)

 

[djoole]

I'll try this when at home and will keep you updated, thanks a lot!

(i assume a have to mount / -uw before modifying syslog.conf ? )

 

[William Grzybowski]

Thats correct, mount -uw /

 

[djoole]

William, thanks a lot, it works great!
I just added this line to the mentionned file :
*.* /mnt/zepool/all.log

Thanks again!