Here is a list of the jails on the two main hosts I use at home: knew I used to have a host called kraken. I created a server server, kraken-new, or knew. knew performs many tasks: runs Bacula regressions tests against various database versions hosts the backups for my Bacula server runs my home […]
When I acknowledge a service problem on Nagios, I do not want to send a notification that it has been acknowledge. This patch, against Nagios 3.5.1 changes the default from CHECKED to not checked. With credit to Marc Powell for his suggestion. After that initial success, I went one step further and supplied a default
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I remember a time when I’d never been to a conference related to my passions. Once I went, things changed. I realized that making strong working relationships with others who share my passion is important. Not only does this solidify the community of which you are a member, it also helps you personally. Every conference
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I remember a time when I’d never been to a conference related to my passions. Once I went, things changed. I realized that making strong working relationships with others who share my passion is important. Not only does this solidify the community of which you are a member, it also helps you personally. Every conference
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I started seeing this recently. It appears in the logs on my firewall: It does not seem to be disturbing anything, other than my nerves. The classical situation is: two PCs are arguing over the same IP address. Each NIC has a unique MAC address, used at the physical network segment. We often refer to
kernel: arp: 10.55.0.62 moved from 78:ca:39:fe:d6:b3 to 14:99:e2:27:0f:48 on em0 Read More »
I’m starting to play with RabbitMQ as part of a new project. The first goal: get it installed and running. I’m going to do this in a jail running FreeBSD 9.2, but this should be the same if you running a non-jail. I installed via: pkg install rabbitmq In /usr/local/etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-env.conf I have the following: NODENAME=bunny@sally
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With all of the activity surrounding the Heartbleed Bug, it was great to see so many people helping out to keep things secure. Of note was the actions of the FreeBSD team in getting out bug fixes. I have three recommendations for you: Follow a release branch (as opposed to stable). Run freebsd-update in cron
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I just set up a new server and kept having a keyboard issue. When powering on, the keyboard worked. When rebooting, it did not. When I tried another USB port, I saw these errors: uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device Errors in /var/log/messages showed: usb_alloc_device: device init 2 failed (USB_ERR_IOERROR, ignored) ugen0.2: at usbus0 (disconnected)
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One of the great things about FreeBSD is the poudriere tool. With it, you can create your own set of customized packages for installation on your server. Today, I will be installing packages in a FreeBSD 9.2 jail. Although I am installing in a jail, the same steps apply to any FreeBSD 9.2 host. In
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I just showed you how I installed ezjail 3.3 on FreeBSD 9.2 and how it uses ZFS for each jail. Today I’m writing about using poudriere to create custom packages for use by pkng. In this post, I will be creating packages on a FreeBSD 9.2 server. Those packages are for running Bacula on FreeBSD
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