Author name: Dan Langille

I've been playing with computers since I read an Elementary Electronics magazine way back in the 1970s. I started contributing to open source projects in 1998. After that, I gradually moved from being a software developer to being a systems administrator.

Packet loss varies according to direction

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This is interesting. From my gateway to one of my servers, the packet loss is pretty big: bast.example.org (0.0.0.0) Tue Oct 16 12:15:36 2012 Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit Packets Pings Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. L100.PHLAPA-VFTTP-84.verizon-gni 3.4% 119 4.8 6.1 3.2 60.1 7.4 2. G0-6-2-2.PHLAPA-LCR-21.verizon-g 8.4% 119 5.5 5.6 3.1 33.0 4.4 3. 130.81.199.18 4.2% 119 5.6 16.6 3.0 228.0 33.6 4. 0.xe-7-1-0.BR1.IAD8.ALTER.NET […]

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Lots of packet loss

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This is not nice: [dan@bast:~] $ netstat -nr | tat -nr | grep default default 98.114.243.1 UGS 27 301523519 fxp0 default 2001:470:1f06:b80::1 UGS gif0 [dan@bast:~] $ ping -c 10 google.com PING google.com (74.125.228.36): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 74.125.228.36: icmp_seq=0 ttl=253 time=11.680 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.228.36: icmp_seq=1 ttl=253 time=12.689 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.228.36: icmp_seq=2 ttl=253 time=11.089 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.228.36: icmp_seq=4 ttl=253 time=12.337 ms 64 bytes from 74.125.228.36: icmp_seq=5

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WordPress Migration: stripping out headers/footers, etc

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This is the third in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about how I removed non-core material from the website before I imported it. This is vital because WordPress adds its own headers and footers, which my website already contains. The first step is to remove all that cruft before creating the input file for the RSS Importer (first used in the previous post). The

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WordPress Migration: : The first attempts

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This is the second in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. In this post, I’ll talk about why I decided to go with RSS-Importer and outline the first steps I took to get my posts into WordPress. These steps did not complete the migration. Rather, they were a proof of concept which led to other tasks to import yet more data into WordPress. In these posts, I will use the

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Pentabarf travel

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Here is the start of a query for pulling out travel requirements for conference attendees. SELECT P.last_name, P.first_name, CPT.arrival_from, CPT.arrival_to, CPT.need_accommodation FROM conference_person_travel CPT, conference_person CP, conference C, person P WHERE CPT.need_accommodation AND CPT.conference_person_id = CP.conference_person_id AND P.person_id = CP.person_id AND CP.conference_id = C.conference_id AND C.acronym = ‘BSDCan2015’

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Importing data into WordPress

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This is the first in a series of articles on my migration to WordPress. I have another diary (The FreeBSD Diary). I’ve been running it since 1998. More than once I’ve been asked why doesn’t it use some blogging package. Well, I didn’t know of anything back then, and cobbled together my own solution. The website is just static HTML, with some PHP functions to provide common headers, sidebars, footers, etc. There is

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Destroying some unneeded ZFS snapshots

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Last night, I found that I had a number of unused ZFS snapshots. I decided to destroy some of them. The first destroy locked up the system. Nagios reported everything was dead. I remotely power cycled the system. After it came back, I noticed that a scrub was in progress. This had not been initiated because of the power cycle. The scrub was a weekly automatic operation which started some hours before my

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Bacula volumes – running low on disk space

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I have been using Bacula since early 2004. That’s nearly 9 years of great backups. Back in early 2010, I set up a multi-terabyte system in my basement with commodity hardware. Today, after about 18 months of backups, it’s starting to fill up. Now is the time to start restricting the creation of new Volumes in order to force the recycling of older expired (but still on disk) Volumes. NOTE: actually, I did

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OK, let’s compare

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OK, let’s compare the two snapshots, one taken today, the other taken on Monday. [dan@ngaio:/usr] $ sudo du -c -d 1 . Password: 4 ./.snap 62760 ./bin 37520 ./include 93068 ./lib 184 ./libdata 35384 ./libexec 75109696 ./local 37708 ./sbin 102480 ./share 1103840 ./src 250268 ./compat 376 ./games 4 ./obj 71082728 ./home 3584112 ./ports 4 ./tmp 18287800 ./websites 4 ./bacula-restores 1335104 ./FreshPorts 21599028 ./samba_mounts 58065982 ./jails 250788058 . 250788058 total [dan@ngaio:/usr] $ [dan@ngaio:/usr] $

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