r730-03
This is the Dell R730 host known as r730-03. It replaces an earlier post. This new post was created after I added a new spare via Adding in a hot-spare for zfs on FreeBSD. gpart zpool list zpool status File systems dmesg sesutil show jls
June 2025
Adding in a stand-by spare drive for ZFS on FreeBSD
This is a follow up to Adding in a hot-spare for zfs on FreeBSD from two months ago. The replacement for the returned drive has arrived and after sitting for many weeks on my coffee table, it is installed in r730-03. Here it is, as found in /var/log/messages – this host is a Dell R730 which has drive cages allowing me to insert the drive without powering off the host. Jun 30 16:17:15
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FreeBSD – view mongodb featureCompatibilityVersion
This took me a while to figure out. First, I learned I needed (re Mongo shell (mongosh) is missing. I built and installed databases/mongosh. Then I ran this command: [13:00 unifi01 dvl ~] % mongosh –port 27117 Current Mongosh Log ID: 686138ea47e9a86d2a5e3cea Connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27117/?directConnection=true&serverSelectionTimeoutMS=2000&appName=mongosh+2.3.8 Using MongoDB: 7.0.21 Using Mongosh: 2.3.8 For mongosh info see: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/mongodb-shell/ To help improve our products, anonymous usage data is collected and sent to MongoDB periodically (https://www.mongodb.com/legal/privacy-policy). You
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Steps for adding a new laptop
I have a new-to-me-laptop. This post isn’t about setting it up, installing applications, etc. Nor is it about copying data from the old laptop to the new laptop. This post is about the configuration things which are specific to this laptop, which is known as pro07.int.unixathome.org. It will cover several steps that, because they are carried out so infrequently, I don’t always remember them. Hopefully, this will help me the next time I
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FreshPorts repos to be converted to subversion – a first draft
FreshPorts is just over 25 years old. The original repository was cvs. Some of it was converted to subversion in October 2002. That same repo was converted to Git in September 15 Some FreshPorts repos are still on subversion – many are up on Github (19 of them at https://github.com/FreshPorts/) I thank Cosmin Stroe (Chicago) and Caleb L. Power for their efforts in this area. This has been an ongoing process. Latest work
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