For future reference, this is the knew server … oh wait, I think it’s this server which is was mounted in the 4U chassis mentioned in this post. It runs a few jails, including Bacula regression testing services. It is now mounted in a SuperChassis 846E16-R1200B This is the previous post for this system. Photos …
For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. FYI, this server is named after Joshua Slocum, who was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world. This server was upgraded on Feb 2 2019. Only the storage persisted. Everything else was upgraded. The latest update was Upgrading an NVMe zpool from …
Copies of data are good. Especially if on a different host. zfs snapshots combined with zfs send | zfs recv make replication of zfs file systems especially easy. I am already using sanoid to manage zfs snapshots. Now I’m going to use syncoid to transfer those snapshots to another host. Both sanoid and syncoid are …
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I’ve been trying to update the website to PHP 8.1, but the WordPress Theme I’ve been using is from 2016 and has not been updated. For now, I’ve tossed in the Neve theme, which means it looks wonky, but the content is available. I’ll fix it up soon.
After the former FreshPorts server was retired, its OpenVPN credential were revoked. I maintain those certificates via ssl-admin. I uploaded the new CRL into the System | Certificate Manager | Certificate Revocation page in pfSense. Today, I was seeing strange errors in Nagios, and figured someone wasn’t connected to the VPN. Checking OpenVPN client logs, …
The FreshPorts dev, test, and stage websites are hosted on a server in my basement. Each instance consists of two jails: an ingress node – for pulling in new commits (and other data) into the database. a webserver node – for displaying the web pages. The new drives: Sometimes the zpool gets too close to …
This is just rough notes for myself. List the gpart output for each drive in my system. for drive in $(sysctl -n kern.disks) do gpart show $drive done gpart: No such geom: da11. => 40 9767541088 da10 GPT (4.5T) 40 8392664 – free – (4.0G) 8392704 9758048256 3 freebsd-zfs (4.5T) 9766440960 1100168 – free – …
This post is based on a tweet and was created after a followup incident occurred today. The post was created to consolidate the information into a blog post so I could easily find it later. Details about this host (disks, zpool, gpart, etc) are in this post. On March 15 2022, I noticed these messages …
da12 in my FreeBSD zfs array disappeared at :02 and came back at :04 Read More »
In my previous blog post, I got homeassistant up and running, but without a TLS connection. Let’s fix that. In this post: FreeBSD 13.1 but that’s not relevant to the work being done homeassistant-2022.8.7 creation of a certificate is not covered the sysadmin.com guide covers this – it creates a self-signed cert I’m using a …
Home Assistant is not friendly for plain installs. It seems designed for containers or running everything out of pip install. That, in itself, is a disturbing trend I’ve seen on several projects (what? you’re not running a git cloned image?). I’ve seen reports of people running containers etc. However, I want to run this on …
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