If it doesn’t belong anywhere, it belongs here.
I’ve been trying to update the website to PHP 8.1, but the WordPress Theme I’ve been using is from 2016 and has not been updated. For now, I’ve tossed in the Neve theme, which means it looks wonky, but the content is available. I’ll fix it up soon.
This is just rough notes for myself. List the gpart output for each drive in my system. for drive in $(sysctl -n kern.disks) do gpart show $drive done gpart: No such geom: da11. => 40 9767541088 da10 GPT (4.5T) 40 8392664 – free – (4.0G) 8392704 9758048256 3 freebsd-zfs (4.5T) 9766440960 1100168 – free – …
Home Assistant is not friendly for plain installs. It seems designed for containers or running everything out of pip install. That, in itself, is a disturbing trend I’ve seen on several projects (what? you’re not running a git cloned image?). I’ve seen reports of people running containers etc. However, I want to run this on …
Getting Home Assistant running in a FreeBSD 13.1 jail Read More »
Yes, this is blatant bragging. But realistically, this is more a function of my ISP (Verizon FiOS) and my electricity supplier (PECO) than my abilities. To be fair, it is more contingent upon no power failures than anything else. I do have a UPS, but that’s only good for about 10-20 minutes. For August 2021, …
This started earlier today and I solved it only just now. It took me a while to find out it was duplicate cron jobs, and even longer to find out why. It started with lockf notifications (if you’ve never heard of lockf before, please read this Twitter thread for examples). In short, one of those …
I use OpenVPN since at least 2008 – now going on 13 years. I find it to be reliable and stable. A few days ago, I added another client to a VPN. I run this particular network with self-signed certificates which I create using ssl-admin – I find it particularly useful for this purpose. The …
I have some odd batteries in use at home. This post will enable me to look them up without opening up the device. Wireless light switch This is used in the server room (aka laundry room in the basement) Cable tester I have had this cable tester for many years. It’s an Ideal LinkMaster. It’s …
I like boot environments (BE) on FreeBSD. They were especially handy when building the AWS host for FreshPorts, since I had no serial console. I would create a BE saving the current status, then make some changes. I’d mark the current BE as boot once, so I could boot back in the known good BE. …
I recently discovered that you can delete all snapshot from a ZFS filesystem with a single command. It came to me via fortune: You can delete a range of ZFS snapshots (a-z) in multiple ways. The following will delete d and all earlier snapshots: zfs destroy mypool/data@%d To delete d and all later snapshots: zfs …
Moving some ZFS filesystems to the ‘trash’ and removing all their snapshots – sanoid Read More »
Today was battery replacement day at my place. The UPS batteries were replaced without downtime. That doesn’t mean there wasn’t downtime. I am not documenting this in real-time. This is post-event analysis. First, I wanted to change the battery replacement date, so I ran acptest on the pfSense server, to which the UPS is connected …