March 28, 2015 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Mar 28 2015

ezjail with freebsd-update

2 Comments / ezjail, FreeBSD, freebsd-update / By Dan Langille / March 28, 2015

I wrote this back in July 2013, but never published it. Might as well share it now. Lately, I’ve been moving away from tracking FreeeBSD STABLE and more towards using freebsd-update(8). Today, I’ll be setting up a jail, using ezjail and freebsd-update. ############## NOTE: Please read the comments before you read the article. ############## Installing Installing ezjail is straight forward: Installing the base jail My first attempt at creating a base jail failed: […]

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Munin

This is an old post I wrote, but never published, back in 2010. I’ve started using Munin for some statistical monitoring. Using the hddtemp_smartctl plugin, I was getting some permission errors. After printing the output of the command, I noticed these in the logs: 2010/03/11-18:30:05 [60845] [ERROR] Command /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -A /dev/ad8 on drive ad8 failed: 256. The plugin needs to have read permission on all monitored devices. smartctl 5.39 2009-12-09 r2995 [FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE