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Selecting replacements batteries for my Eaton 5PX UPS (5PX2200RT & 5PXEBM48RT)

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Both nut and Nagios are telling me: replace my batteries. Fair enough. The UPS (5PX2200RT) and the external battery pack (5PXEBM48RT) were installed and configured with nut four years and two months ago. It’s time. Usually, I buy compatible third party batteries. Looking at video and images, I’m seeing these units use batteries in a […]

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Loading up an old copy of a PostgreSQL database, zfs snapshots, and sanoid snapshot management

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Sometimes you want to go back to a known good state. And you want to do it quickly, without waiting around. In my case, that’s going to be a zfs snapshot. Today I am preparing to test some code changes so that FreshPorts properly creates a new category. See these recent blog posts for details:

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dma: could not pick up queue file

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see https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions/2024-October/005877.html for the full archive. A while back, I changed my FreeBSD jails from using postfix to using dma. I like postfix, but I don’t want to maintain the app in so many locations. dma is less work. I wrote a short blog post about configuring dma and also blogged about replacing postfix with

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Self-hosting Bitwarden / VaultWarden on FreeBSD

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The time has come for me to consider another application for my TOTP data (think 6-digit codes produced by Google Authenticator or an RSA device. I’ve been using an app called 2STP – I have long liked it. Support for it ended about 7 years ago, yet it continued to slug along on my phone

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kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from x to y packets/sec

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For 3 days now, I’ve been seeing these messages. If you search online, it’s usually the result of port scanning. Aug 7 14:05:15 zuul kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 212 to 195 packets/sec Aug 7 14:05:16 zuul kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 219 to 215 packets/sec Aug 7 14:05:17 zuul kernel:

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Why are some emails from Charlie Root and others are from root?

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It’s another Saturday morning outside the coffee shop. My abundance of free time, without conferences to run, has resulted in mind shattering pondering. Case in point: In this post: FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE Let’s use these two hosts: r730-01 – email is from root nagios03 – email is from Charlie Root What are the differences? First idea

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