Author name: Dan Langille

Why not use the tape that’s there?

*run A job name must be specified. The defined Job resources are: 1: BackupCatalog 2: RestoreFiles 3: MigrateDiskToTape 4: CopyMegaFileToTape 5: laptop 6: laptop-vpn 7: laptop-wifi-5.3 8: laptop-verify 9: laptop-websites 10: laptop-xp 11: wocker 12: bast basic 13: bast home 14: dbclone basic 15: dbclone home 16: polo basic 17: polo 18: kraken basic 19: […]

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pf – cannot define table: Cannot allocate memory

I use pf on FreeBSD 8.1-stable as my firewall of choice. Recently I’ve started using the University of Alberta list of trapped addresses. As of the time of writing this, the list contains about 56,000 IP addresses. When combined with my own list of 27,000 SPAMTRAP addresses, I quick ran into a problem when reload

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IPv6 woes

I’m not sure why I can’t get to the internet from my systems inside my LAN. The gateway can. Interesting: On the client box, I can’t see any IPv6 traffic leaving the except icmp. The following demonstrates: Setting up a $ ifconfig em0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 options=219b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC> ether 00:1b:21:51:ab:2d inet 10.55.0.44 netmask 0xffffff00

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zfs send | zfs receive

For the record, I was doing a copy within a system recently: # time zfs send storage/bacula@transfer | mbuffer | zfs receive storage/compressed/bacula-buffer in @ 0.0 kB/s, out @ 0.0 kB/s, 4394 GB total, buffer 100% fullll summary: 4394 GByte in 35 h 11 min 35.5 MB/s real 2111m18.302s user 11m44.831s sys 258m59.151s I was

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Overly agressive spam rejection

I’ve been getting a few of these emails lately. It’s my own servers rejecting email I’m send to myself. I’m not sure yet where to adjust these settings. I’m not even sure what software is rejecting it. I suspect amavis. Return-Path: <dan@supernews.example.org> X-Original-To: dan@nyi.example.org Delivered-To: dan@nyi.example.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nyi.example.org (Postfix) with

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ntp wasn’t running but Nagios didn’t notice

Earlier today, I noticed the following output from a Bacula job: 24-Sep 14:14 bacula-dir JobId 38548: Start Backup JobId 38548, Job=latens_home.2010-09-24_14.12.38_31 24-Sep 14:14 bacula-dir JobId 38548: Using Device “MegaFile-latens” 24-Sep 14:09 latens-fd JobId 38548: DIR and FD clocks differ by -307 seconds, FD automatically compensating. That’s 5 minutes. It shouldn’t be varying by that much.

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Rebate!

Back in Feburary, I ordered a 720W PSU for $150. There was a $60 rebate with it. When the PSU arrived, I promptly filled out the form and put it in an envelope for mailing. Except, I didn’t mail it. I found that envelope a few weeks ago. What the hell. I mailed it. It

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