I run poudriere in a jail on FreeBSD – it really is becoming the thing-to-do with all the cool kids. Everyone’s doing it. It is nifty. I will provide only the jail configuration, and not any file system configuration. That is left for you. I think these links might be most helpful: Using poudriere to […]
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It is time to let the knew server go. It has gone through multiple upgrades, new drives, new boards, and new chassis. It has been replaced by r730-03. Before I let it go, I want to clear off the drives. By that I mean: I did this by booting the host using mfBSD (a lovely
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This is a rewrite of a previous post on the same subject. I have rewritten it because I created a new jail ™ and I’m using a different configuration now. I recently moved a Time Capsule instance from a FreeBSD host into a jail. Later, I moved to using Samba instead of AFP. Why? Samba
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A friend introduced me to monitor lights earlier this year. I thought about getting one, but didn’t. I added it to my wish-list and I recently received one. I really like it. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. This is what I bought: OOWOLF Monitor Light Bar with Remote Screen Light Bar
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On FreeBSD, you can jail a ZFS dataset – that is, the jail can manipulate the ZFS dataset as if it was a host (more or less). This has useful applications. In my case, I want to backup a snapshot of that dataset from the host. For example, I want to backup this dataset: [12:19
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Tonight, while watching an episode of The Great British Bake Off, I configured a new Bacula backup jobs to cover some datasets which were not already backed up. I already have a backup jobs to backup all the jails, but only for datasets which sit right under zroot/jails (for example). This new solution takes a
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Librenms is my tool-of-choice for grabbing metrics from switches, servers, wireless access points, and anything else with an snmp interface. In this post: FreeBSD 14.0 LibrenMS 23.11.0,1 – updated to 23.11.0_1,1 within this post net-snmp-5.9.1_4,1 After updating some hosts to FreeBSD 14, the zfs application/extension broke. It was quickly amended after a report was lodged.
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If you’ve been watching your logs, you’ve probably noticed messages like this: In this post: FreeBSD 14.0 ntpd .2.8p16-a (included with the base OS) There are several FreeBSD PR lodged, the most relevant (to me) is ntpd: leap-seconds.list should not run inside jails, and IETF is no longer hosting it. The fix I am using:
Without resorting to configuration tools, such as Ansible, I wonder if there is an easy way to avoid repeating a list of datasets within a jail configuration. First, some facts: FreeBSD 14.0 I use plain vanilla jails I know this can be easily scripted with a configuration tool; that is out of scope for this
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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
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