August 2014

Cunning plan for upgrading jails

Leave a Comment / ezjail, FreeBSD, Jails, Open Source / By Dan Langille / August 14, 2014

After a lengthy Twitter discussion this afternoon, and a post to the forums, I decided to alter my ezjail basejail. The issue: when you update the basejail, /etc/rc.d and /etc/periodic do not get updated. This is by design. I wanted those directories to get updated. So I have changed the basejail. I will outline first, […]

Cunning plan for upgrading jails Read More »

Getting logstash-forwarder working

6 Comments / logstash / By Dan Langille / August 13, 2014

I’m doing some work with logstash-forwarder as part of a consolidation effort to get all the logs into one place, and using logstash to put them into Elasticsearch. logstash-fowarder requires the Go programming language, and that will be our first step. Installing go, the programming language I am assuming you are installing go at /usr/local;

Getting logstash-forwarder working Read More »