While in Ottawa for BSDCan 2015 and PGCon 2015, I obtained a 4TB external USB HDD. It now contains copies of the videos back to 2012 for BSDCan and PGCon. This is for backup. All these videos exist elsewhere (e.g. Youtube) and I have these just for backup. NOTE: the videos for BSDCan 2015 and […]
My disks are full. [dan@knew:~] $ zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT system 27T 21.4T 5.57T 79% 1.00x ONLINE – [dan@knew:~] $ zpool status pool: system state: ONLINE scan: scrub in progress since Tue Jun 9 03:26:26 2015 12.9T scanned out of 21.5T at 98.1M/s, 25h32m to go 0 repaired, 59.92%
My HDD are full. Time for a new server. Read More »
I have 5 Raspberry Pi 2 here. I’m going to install FreeBSD 11.x on them. I’ve already done one. The second is started, and now I’m going to write it down so I know what to do the next time. The wiki entry will contain the latest status. The binaries Rasperberry Pi 2 only runs
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Following on from my post about excluding the base OS with a Bacula FileSet, I decided to exclude some more. The starting point Here are the baselines: What else will I exclude? I decided to exclude the following as well: Adding iocage support Along the way, I extended the Exclude to work on server using
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I recently implemented Fail2ban on a FreeBSD jail host. It monitors log files within the jails, from the host. Offensive IP addresses which act up in one jail will be blocked at the host, thus blocking the rascal IP from all jails. This has been running for about two weeks. Today I added another tool,
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I felt I was backing up way too much on my jail server. I was backing up files which would be installed as part of the OS. Let’s look at the esimate: *estimate level=full job=”slocum jail snapshots” Using Catalog “MyCatalog” Connecting to Client slocum-fd at slocum.int.unixathome.org:9102 2000 OK estimate files=2,824,716 bytes=239,568,332,325 * I decided to
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I noticed this tonight: {:timestamp=>”2015-04-18T01:01:54.363000+0000″, :message=>”Failed parsing date from field”, :field=>”syslog_timestamp”, :value=>”Apr 18 01:01:49″, :exception=>java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid format: “Apr 18 01:01:49″ is malformed at ” 18 01:01:49″, :level=>:warn} It seems this is the cause: For the record, here are all such instances: One day, I’ll come back here and fix that.
I have no idea when I wrote this. It got saved but never published, until today. I recently had the boot drive at one of my servers change. It’s really a VM on a box, but at least it’s running FreeBSD. To fix it, I got a VNC session going to their server, and was
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I wrote this back in July 2013, but never published it. Might as well share it now. Lately, I’ve been moving away from tracking FreeeBSD STABLE and more towards using freebsd-update(8). Today, I’ll be setting up a jail, using ezjail and freebsd-update. ############## NOTE: Please read the comments before you read the article. ############## Installing
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This is an old post I wrote, but never published, back in 2010. I’ve started using Munin for some statistical monitoring. Using the hddtemp_smartctl plugin, I was getting some permission errors. After printing the output of the command, I noticed these in the logs: 2010/03/11-18:30:05 [60845] [ERROR] Command /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -A /dev/ad8 on drive ad8 failed: