March 2019 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

using syncthing between my OSX laptop and my FreeBSD server

We know the routine. You have a desktop, and a laptop, or perhaps two laptops. You want your files in both places. A shared, remotely mounted directory is not ideal. Instead, let’s have the systems synchronize themselves. That’s where syncthing comes in: Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is […]

Mar 22 2019

Getting ‘FreeBSD-10.2 is vulnerable’ messages on a 12.0 host

2 Comments / Nagios, nrpe, Open Source / By Dan Langille / March 22, 2019

I started playing with /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/405.pkg-base-audit as part of a monitoring system. It works fine from the command line, but when I use Nagios plugins, I am getting unexpected results. By unexpected, I mean messages about FreeBSD 10.2. The host in question runs FreeBSD 12.0. The problem cannot be reproduced on the host, only from the Nagios monitoring host. Oh wait, the Nagios monitoring host is a jail on the host in question. That

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