December 3, 2023

Post upgrade – checking the jails

Stuff goes wrong. I like to check. Trust. But. Verify. Skip to the end for the list of useful commands. Here’s some of that verification, as briefly mentioned in FreeBSD 14 upgrade – files not removed by delete-old and Excluding some jails from upgrade. After upgrading all the jails on r730-01, I wanted to make sure that all the binaries had been updated from FreeBSD 13. Here’s what I did. This tells me […]

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Excluding some jails from upgrade

I have some jails already updated to FreeBSD 14 – let’s get a list of what needs to be updated. This cold just as easily be used to get a list of what not to upgrade, if you didn’t want to update all jails right now. These jails are already updated: [15:30 r730-01 dvl ~] % file /jails/*/bin/sh | grep 14 /jails/bacula/bin/sh: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked,

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FreeBSD 14 upgrade – files not removed by delete-old

I was upgrading a jail (dns1) on r730-01 and I noticed this output from mkjail: In this post: FreeBSD 13.2 (upgrading from) FreeBSD 14.0 (upgrading to) mkjail-0.0.4 (upgrading with) EDIT: 2023-12-05 : This happened again when I updated the tallboy host. Looking at the mkjail source, I realized it had just completed the pkg upgrade and delete-old steps. I manually ran the delete-old command: [14:01 r730-01 dvl ~/src/scripts] % sudo jexec dns1 make

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