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cert-puller: using anvil to pull down & install new certificates, then restart services

Now that I have configured my webserver to pull down any new certificates, now it’s time to configure my clients to pull certificates from the webserver. In my quest for a centralized Let’s Encrypt solution, I’ve created the FreeBSD port for acme.sh (an ACME client for Let’s Encrypt) and anvil, a tool for distributing and […]

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anvil – copying the certificates to the website

In my Let’s Encrypt implementation, I am using a centralized acme.sh solution which generates all the certificates I use and authenticates via dns-01 challenges. I use anvil to distribute those certificates. In this post, I will describe how the website pulls the certificates down from the rsync-jail. I will assume you have read my previous

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Introducing anvil – Tools for distributing ssl certificates

I’m in the end-stages of finishing off my centralized Let’s Encrypt solution and I’ve released my code as an open source project named anvil. I’ve also created a FreeBSD port. In this post, I outline the anvil tools and how I use them. In future posts, I will detail the individual components, some of which

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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

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Moving ZFS filesystems/datasets from one ZFS zpool to another

Now that I’ve filled up data01, I bought some more SSDs and created another zpool. Today, on this snow-is-anticipated Saturday winter morning, I’m going to move some ZFS filesystems/datasets around. Side note: I like the term dataset better than filesystem. man zfs talks about datasets, which can be a file system, a volume, a snapshot,

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Adding an SSL certificate to HomeAssistant

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

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Adjusting my ZFS filesystems to conform with standard FreeBSD boot environments

Get FreeBSD 12.2 mfsBSD (because that matches the OS on slocum), burn it to a thumb drive using OSX. NOTE: the following didn’t work. I wound up not having the right values in /lib and /var/db/ I don’t know what I did wrong, but I did manage to fix them up afterwards. I suspect that

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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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