You are probably reading this file since you got it in your mailbox by a cronjob. There are 4 different ways to get rid of this somewhat annoying hourly message from cron: 1) RTFM and configure systraq. Systraq documentation is likely installed in a location like /usr/share/doc/systraq/ . Remove the file systraq_is_unconfigured (probably in /etc/systraq/) when done. 2) Purge the systraq package from your system. 3) If systraq was installed from a package for your distribution, your package maintainer might have supplied configuration files, specifically tweaked for your system. These are likely installed in /usr/share/doc/systraq/examples/snapshot_{pub,root}.{home,}list . Copy these to /etc/systraq/ . If there's a file /etc/systraq/Makefile, run make -C /etc/systraq . Check the contents of /etc/systraq/filetraq.conf; make sure it does _have_ content. Remove the file systraq_is_unconfigured (probably in /etc/systraq/) when done. 4) Execute # touch /etc/systraq/i_want_a_broken_systraq (proper location could vary). See st_snapshot.hourly(1) for more information.