April 29, 2020 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

using zfs rollback for cache clearing

I’m in the final stages of the FreshPorts packages project. One of the last tasks is clearing the packages cache from disk when new package information is loaded into the database. See also: Clearing the packages cache ZFS when you’re not doing ZFS Several of the configuration items have been learned from putting my poudriere instance into a jail. In this post: FreeBSD 12.1 py37-iocage-1.2_5 If I was to do this cache clearing […]

Apr 29 2020

WARNING: failed precmd routine for mysql

Leave a Comment / mySQL / By Dan Langille / April 29, 2020

Last night the MySQL server instance in my dbclone jail stopped working. This is the jail into which copies of all my databases eventually go for test restores and backups. This morning I tried started it: [dan@dbclone:~] $ sudo service mysql-server start /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server: WARNING: failed precmd routine for mysql My initial search suggested removing /var/db/mysql (this will lose all your data). Since this was a testing server, I tried it. No success. I

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