March 2021

Moving some ZFS filesystems to the ‘trash’ and removing all their snapshots – sanoid

I recently discovered that you can delete all snapshot from a ZFS filesystem with a single command. It came to me via fortune: You can delete a range of ZFS snapshots (a-z) in multiple ways. The following will delete d and all earlier snapshots: zfs destroy mypool/data@%d To delete d and all later snapshots: zfs […]

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mosquitto: upgrade from 1.x to 2.x requires configuration changes to keep working

I updated net/mosquitto from 1.6.7_1 to 2.0.8 on March 14, 2021. It did not get restarted at that time. It wasn’t until sysutils/anvil brought in a new certificate and attempted to restart mosquitto did the monitoring start detecting the problem: mosquitto wasn’t running. It’s the pid file Looking into it, nothing was logged when starting

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Eaton ePDU Auth Algorithm & Crypto Algorithm for SNMPv3 Configuration

I recently acquired an Eaton EMA114-10 PDU. When adding it to LibreNMS, I did not know what Authorization Algorithm or Crypto Algorithm to use when configuring it for SNMPv3. Searching did not find anything. IRC did. dagb on the LibreNMS IRC channel knew what was used for older EATON devices. Turns out, that hasn’t changed.

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Labelling tapes in bulk – Bacula

This is not a significant post. It is for the record. I received 20 new LTO4 tapes recently. I attached the external labels to them after using https://kelvin.nu/barcode *label barcodes pool=Scratch storage=bacula-sd-02 drive=0 slot=1-7,11-15,17-23,39,47 Connecting to Storage daemon bacula-sd-02 at bacula-sd-02.int.unixathome.org:9103 … 3306 Issuing autochanger “slots” command. Device “bacula-sd-02” has 47 slots. Connecting to Storage

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