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Unable to load config info from /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf

There I was, just minding my own business, creating a new certificate request, when bang! I got hit with this: # openssl sl genrsa -des3 -out imaps.unixathome.org.key 2048 Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus ………………………………………………+++ ……………………………………………………………………………..+++ e is 65537 (0x10001) Enter pass phrase for imaps.unixathome.org.key: Verifying – Enter pass phrase for imaps.unixathome.org.key: # openssl req -new -key imaps.unixathome.org.key Unable to load config info from /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf What? Are you in a jail? […]

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Configuring and assigning an IP address to an APC 7900

When you first get your APC 7900, you won’t be able to talk to it. Here is how I configured mine. Assign an IP adress to the APC 7900 To assign an IP address to an APC 7900: # arp -s 10.0.0.128 00:C0:B7:78:8A:7E # ping -s 113 10.0.0.128 PING 10.0.0.128 (10.0.0.128): 113 data bytes 121 bytes from 10.0.0.128: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=91.755 ms 121 bytes from 10.0.0.128: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=4.165 ms 121 bytes from

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Lots of packet loss

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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ZFS – how much space do I have?

According to this, I have 5.41T available. $ zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT storage 12.7T 7.28T 5.41T 57% ONLINE – According to this, I have 3.7T available: $ df -h | grep stora storage 3.7T 1.7G 3.7T 0% /storage storage/Retored 3.7T 39K 3.7T 0% /storage/Retored storage/bacula 8.0T 4.3T 3.7T 54% /storage/bacula storage/pgsql 3.7T 5.5G 3.7T 0% /storage/pgsql Which is correct?

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ZFS & gmirror & drive renumbering

I am impressed…. my gmirror array continued to work even after the drives were renamed from da20 and da24 to ada0 and ada1. This happened when I tried out the ahci(4) for my SATA drives. It’s the type of thing I’m striving for soon in my ZFS array. All this started when I wanted to find out about making my ZFS array more resilient. See http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=663685+0+current/freebsd-stable (which is the top level post of

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