This was done on FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p10. After my boss told me about losing qmail logs from a jail some time ago when a server was shutdown, I started looking at some tests to ensure that jails are shutdown properly. I am beginning to suspect they are not. Consider this test. I added this to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nullmailer […]
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Background I was asked to comment on the following: Our software is built and maintained by about 20 engineers, and runs in production on dozens of servers in a remote data center. One problem we frequently face is identity and access management on these servers – our engineers occasionally need to directly access the servers
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I tried this today, creating an 8.3-RELEASE jail for poudriere: $ sudo poudriere jail -c -v 8.3-RELEASE -j releng_8_3 ====>> Creating releng_8_3 fs… done ====>> Fetching sets for FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE amd64 fetch: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/8.3-RELEASE/base/CHECKSUM.SHA256: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) fetch: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/8.3-RELEASE/base/CHECKSUM.SHA256: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) ====>> Error: Failed to
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Earlier today, I was reminded of a old series of tweets regarding temperature. That led me to this to a FreeBSD Forums post which showed me this interesting bit of information. I draw your attention to the two hw.acpi.thermal values near the top. Those may well represent the ambient room temperature, more or less. A
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I had a power failure at home tonight. The clients did not react well to the outage. They aren’t at home. They’re out there on the internets. Jul 9 01:02:49 tallboy openvpn[40792]: UDPv4 link local (bound): [AF_INET]10.233.228.194:1194 Jul 9 01:03:51 tallboy openvpn[40792]: UDPv4 link local (bound): [AF_INET]10.233.228.194:1194 Jul 9 01:04:53 tallboy openvpn[40792]: UDPv4 link local
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