Adding an nginx proxy in front of Victoria-Labs

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Victoria-Logs has an built-in UI – and it’s easier for me to access via my web browser if I put Nginx in front of it. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 victoria-logs-1.50.0_2 nginx-1.30.2_2,3/li> Victoria Logs config This is the main configuration, as found in /etc/rc.conf: Those \ and multiple lines, yea, don’t do that, put it all on one line. I’ve done that above to make it easier for you to read. Nginx This […]

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Replacing syslogd with syslog-ng (sysutils/syslog-ng) on FreeBSD

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I just got Victoria Logs running. Now I want to get logs into it. For starters, I want to get the logs on the host itself into Victoria Logs. I figure this is a log-risk experiment. However, this post has been deprecated by a newer post which covers more material. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 victoria-logs-1.50.0_2 syslog-ng-4.11.0_2 I will be using TLS between syslog-ng and victoria-logs – you will notice this is all

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LibreNMS 26.6.0 & itable cache directories vntl/var/db/

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I updated my version of LibreNMS to 26.6.0 and there are “decent sized refactor to the rrd processes” – I’m seeing the following: This is an issue with fontconfig The advice I was given: “XDG_CACHE_HOME might help, but I’m not sure if that is the right fix…” I first created a new directory (I’ve since discovered creating the directory is not necessary, adding the configuration item is sufficient): [12:45 besser dvl /var/db/librenms] %

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Getting Victoria Logs running on FreeBSD

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This post is only about getting Victoria Logs running on FreeBSD. A future post will go over configuration and getting logs in. I’m hoping Victoria Logs can fill the role which ElasticSearch once tried to fill, but failed; it was too finicky and fragile for my use. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 victoria-logs-1.50.0_2 mkjail-0.0.8 Jail creation I’m going to run this in a jail, like most things. You don’t have to. I’m using

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Let’s Encrypt: Please refer to https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html for error code: 6

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Today, about a nearly two weeks after making some config changes for some Let’s Encrypt certs, today I saw new-to-me messages: In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 acme.sh-3.1.3_1 Looking up that URL, I found: Let’s see: root@certs:/var/db/acme/certs # host acme-v02.api.acmeencrypt.org Host acme-v02.api.acmeencrypt.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) root@certs:/var/db/acme/certs # Oh. I posted on Mastodon before proceeding. First things first. Priority matters. Then I went into /var/db/acme/certs/r720-02-pg01.example.org/r720-02-pg01.example.org.conf and made this change: In short, acmeencrypt became letsencrypt. I

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Giving poudriere a jump start

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From time to time, I build my ports for a different version of MySQL, or Python, or, as in tonights case, PHP. My usual build command is: [23:43 pkg01 dvl ~] % sudo poudriere bulk -j 150amd64 -p default -z primary -f /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/buildlists/primary In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 poudriere-3.4.8 For me to build against PHP85, I first created this file: [23:56 pkg01 dvl /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d] % cat 150amd64-default-php85-make.conf DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= php=85 With that file in

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How changes to poudriere.conf affect the build time

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NOTE: I was starting my 6th build when I realized the log links are not publicly accessible. Sorry about that: https://pkg02.int.unixathome.org/ should not resolve for you. I have a new server in the basement, known as r7425-01 – it’s beefy. It’s newer than the other hosts I have. Should I retire one of the older servers? First, let’s see if it’s faster. My primary use case: building packages via poudriere. In this post:

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acme.sh – Let’s Encrypt: Renewing using Le_API=https://acme.zerossl.com/v2/DV90

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For a few days now, the cronjob which runs acme.sh to renew my Let’s Encrypt certificates was tossing out errors for the same two certs. Today, I went looking in the logs. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 acme.sh-3.1.3_1 hostnames have been altered to obscure those actually in use – the real reason I do this is to trigger the security by obscurity zealots The cronjob My cronjob looks like this: The logs The

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r7425-01

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This is the Dell R7425 host known as r7425-01. At idle, despite holding 12 x 12TB HDD, this chassis is pulling about 300-350 watts. gpart zpool list zpool status zfs list dmesg sesutil show [22:28 r7425-01 dvl ~] % sudo sesutil show ses0: ; ID: 500056b345a433ff Desc Dev Model Ident Size/Status Drive Slot 0 da0 ATA HGST HUH721212AL 8CGSV9DG Unknown Drive Slot 1 da1 ATA HGST HUH721212AL 8CGSXG6G Unknown Drive Slot 2 da2

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zfs – a helper script for labelling all those drives

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I now have a Dell R7425 with 12 x 12TB HDD in the basement. A raidz2 zpool would give me about 120TB – with a significant resilver time. I have also thought about a creating 6 x mirrors and striping across them. That would give me about 72TB – that’s still a lot. However I do it, I’m going to label the partitions with the drive slot and serial number. I’m going to

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