system dataset -> syslog setting not honored

[jaaassh]

My system dataset configuration screen looks exactly like that in the docs:

7. System — FreeNAS®11.3-U5 User Guide Table of Contents

www.ixsystems.com

Notably 'syslog' is checked.

Why do I have (recent, today's) logs in /var/log and none on pool1? Shouldn't they be persisted on pool1 per those docs?

 

[sretalla]

Have a look at zfs mount -l | grep log

and ls -l /var

That will probably tell you that it's doing what you thought.

 

[jaaassh]

Thanks! However, I don't understand why /mnt/volume0/.system doesn't exist. Shouldn't it be there if that's where /var/db/system/syslog-... is mounted?

freenas% zfs mount -l | grep log
volume1/iocage/log /mnt/volume1/iocage/log
volume1/.system/syslog-9a9c823ea6d045b2b2330e3252de4f8d /mnt/volume1/.system/syslog-9a9c823ea6d045b2b2330e3252de4f8d
backup1/volume1/iocage/log /mnt/backup1/volume1/iocage/log
volume0/.system/syslog-9a9c823ea6d045b2b2330e3252de4f8d /var/db/system/syslog-9a9c823ea6d045b2b2330e3252de4f8d

freenas% ls /mnt/volume0/.system
ls: /mnt/volume0/.system: No such file or directory

 

[sretalla]

why /mnt/volume0/.system doesn't exist

It isn't mounted.

zfs get mountpoint volume0/.system

Legacy means that ZFS won't try to mount it and leaves that to other tools to do it (but there's no part of TrueNAS that wants to, so it isn't done).