Three weeks ago, I thought I had flashed my new LSI SAS 9201-16i. I had not. When I powered up the system via mfsBSD, I could see the device, but during the boot process, there was no splash screen. I now believe this should always be a signal that you have not correctly flashed the […]
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I have used ssh-agent for a long time. I enter my passphrase once, then let ssh-agent handle my ssh sessions. Last night, I noticed I ssh’d to a box and did not enter my passphrase. I got logged in. I had just rebooted my laptop so I was very concerned about this. It look at
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This post has been replaced by a newer one. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. . This server recently moved to a rack-mount chassis. On an interim basis, it contains an LSI SAS 9101-16i. For future reference, this is the slocum server, which I use for various jails and services.
WARNING: This did not work. It succeeded, without error, but the card did not work. There will be a new blog post soon. Yesterday, a new LSI SAS 9201-16i arrived. I bought it on eBay from a supplier in China and paid for expedited shipping. I offered US$250 for their $338 listing and it was
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I’m writing this to document the facts. I’ll leave adjectives and opinions to you. Greg Truskey, TruCo was hired to perform renovations which started in August 2015. The estimate was 11 weeks. He was on site from about 9am to 3:30pm. Arriving earlier or late was uncommon. On days he would not arrive, we would
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I noticed this on one FreeBSD server today: $ pkg -vv | grep url url: “pkg+http://services.unixathome.org/packages/103amd64-default-master-list/”, I decided: let’s use https, not http, there. After making the change (in my case, it was in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/local.conf, I tried upgraded packages, and it barfed: $ sudo pkg upgrade Updating local repository catalogue… Certificate verification failed for /C=IL/O=StartCom
My first day back from EuroBSDCon 2016, I wanted to fix an issue which arose before the conference. My Cisco AnyConnect client configuration contained old hosts which I no longer used, but didn’t contain the host I was primarily using now. I could add the host, but upon restart, that new host was no longer
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The time has come for me to move from shelving to racks. My first thought was to list the various racks over the years. Look below for old photos and links to the posts I lifted them from. Why a rack? In the past, I have always built my own servers, computers, from parts. I
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After upgrading all my servers to FreeBSD 10.3 last weekend, I started to see these messages in the logs: Aug 3 21:15:19 slocum ntpd[29456]: leapsecond file (‘/var/db/ntpd.leap-seconds.list’): expired less than 64 days ago I found this post which suggested running service ntpd fetch but that did not fix it. While debugging the issue, I added
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My neighbours had a fire in July 2015. Today, the dumpster left. They were not home today when the dumpster was hauled off. I took these photos and the video for their enjoyment. * Dumpster loading * Dumpster being driven away If you want the copies of these, I have them on my phone and