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 […]

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

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