Like many people, I have a laptop which I backup using Bacula. In my case, the laptop may be present under one of two condition: directly connected to my network via wireless indirectly connected to my network via VPN My VPN of preference is OpenVPN, but that’s not relevant to the situation. The issue is: the IP address for my laptop changes depending upon which of the two connections it is using. Putting […]
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This article was written some months go, but only published today. I recently acquired a new tape auto-changer / library. I have already run some simple tests on the library, and all seems well. I already have an existing Bacula installation and my plan is to add this new auto-changer into that. The Devices The following is a list of the devices associated with my auto-changer. The output has been trimmed to exclude
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I have this server (I don’t actually have it; I haven’t seen it since 2006) which has started to be restrictive in what I can do with it. It’s running FreeBSD 9.2 and I’d love to start making more use of jails and ZFS. The server has 8x 50G Raptor drives, all on a 3Ware 9550SX-8LP, and 8GB of RAM. The RAM has been giving these types of messages for a few years
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My laptop’s hostname is dent. I want my DNS records to point to that laptop whether I’m connected to my LAN directly (via WIFI or ethernet cable) or via OpenVPN (my VPN of choice). SIDE NOTE: You will see references to nsupdate -k below. Note that in recent versions of this program, the option you want has changed to nsupdate -y. You will find an example of the new format later in this
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For some time, I’ve seen these messages and been slightly bothered by them. Today, I found the solution. can’t re-use a leaf (geom_label)! can’t re-use a leaf (geom_part_gpt)! module_register: module g_label already exists! Module g_label failed to register: 17 module_register: module g_part_gpt already exists! Module g_part_gpt failed to register: 17 Those messages appeared on the console while booting and were logged in /var/log/dmesg.boot. I was told, but I forget where, that this was
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FreeBSD now has zl4 compression for ZFS. But you must upgrade your pools to get it. If you try before upgrading, you’ll get: # zfs create -o recordsize=8k -o primarycache=metadata -o compress=lz4 system/usr/home/dan/pgsqlsql cannot create ‘system/usr/home/dan/pgsql’: pool must be upgraded to set this property or value So, let’s upgrade: # zpool upgrade -a This system supports ZFS pool feature flags. Successfully upgraded ‘system’ from version 28 to feature flags. Enabled the following features
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This happened today: Nov 15 21:28:36 knew kernel: sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=11000036 SBCL=ae Nov 15 21:28:49 knew last message repeated 1611 times Nov 15 21:28:49 knew sudo: dan : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/usr/home/dan ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/camcontrol rescan all Nov 15 21:28:49 knew kernel: sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=1 DBC=11000036 SBCL=ae Nov 15 21:28:52 knew last message repeated 374 times Nov 15 21:28:52 knew kernel: sym0: SCSI parity error detected:
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Earlier this week, I started seeing this error on a FreeBSD 9.2 mail server running Postfix 2.10.1: CDDB71C56D53 37470 Mon Nov 11 16:22:45 MAILER-DAEMON (temporary failure. Command output: maildrop: signal 0x19) mailarchives@tallboy.unixathome.org I use maildrop, a procmail alternative. I first started using procmail in December 2000. It’s been a good 13 years, but it’s time. At the prompting of Warren Block, who has helped me (and many others) on numerous occasions in the
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I found a problem with the check_pgsql Nagios plugin last week. It can’t handle names such as freshports.org. It’s a valid database name, as witnessed here: $ psql -l | grep freshports freshports.old | dan | SQL_ASCII | C | C | freshports.org | dan | SQL_ASCII | C | C | But it doesn’t work: $ /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_pgsql -H slocum -l www -d freshports.org check_pgsql: Database name is not valid – freshports.org Usage:
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If you see this message when trying to svn up: then you are missing a subversion compile option. Try this command: cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion && make config Then make sure this option is checked: [X] SERF WebDAV/Delta-V (HTTP/HTTPS) repo access module Then recompile subversion with one of these two commands: portupgrade -f subversion Or portmaster subversion
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