Open Source
- Recalibrating an APC UPS
- Duplicating a zpool
- Creating a 4 drive ZFS zpool: stripe over mirrors
- Dell R720 flashing Dell PERC H710 mini into IT mode
- nut – testing shutdown and startup
- nut – testing the shutdown mechanism
- Tarsnap – cleaning up old backups
- Monitoring your UPS using nut on FreeBSD
- Some OpenVPN notes, just for me
- Changing from one dataset to another within a FreeBSD [iocage] jail
- hostmask on an ip address can affect jail DNS
- Unintended shutdown of the #homelab
- Converting an iocage jail from vnet
- starting service would freeze the terminal session
- mysqldump: Error: ‘Access denied; you need (at least one of) the PROCESS privilege(s) for this operation’ when trying to dump tablespaces
- Creating a new iocage jail
- Renaming and replacing zroot filesystems using mfsBSD
- Burning a disk image to a thumbdrive on OSX
- replacing an existing zroot with a proper zroot
- ZFS: adding a drive back into the zpool
- using zfs rollback for cache clearing
- WARNING: failed precmd routine for mysql
- bectl details
- The backups have been wrong for about 97 days
- Creating a ZFS dataset for testing iocage within a jail
- What files installed by this package have been modified post-install?
- Migrating FreshPorts from one db server to another
- pkg: vulnxml parsing error: no element found
- SSL client vs server certificates and bacula-fd
- Which hosts have this vuln package installed? SamDrucker knows.
- patching your Intel CPU Microcode using FreeBSD ports
- knew
- zpool degraded – one drive missing from system
- Creating a drive-bay map
- zfstools & sanoid – snapshots on the local host
- Migrating a Dell TL4000 to a new FreeBSD server and attaching it to a jail
- Oct 4 09:01:24 slocum kernel: pid 1409 (check_bacula), uid 181: exited on signal 11
- How allow.mount.zfs affects mountpoints for ZFS
- Migrating all your iocage jails to a new host
- Migrating drives and the zpool from one host to another.
- Moving poudriere from the host into a jail
- My plan for moving the R710 into the R720
- Going from partition to label in zpool status
- Creating a mirror from your zroot
- Preparing the Dell R720 for ZFS
- scripts for monitoring vulns in FreeBSD jails
- poudriere hooks
- iocage
- Installing Owntracks recorder on FreeBSD
- upgrading to LibreNMS 1.53.1
- hacking on iocage
- pkg: http://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/vuln.xml.bz2: No address record
- Mount your ZFS datasets anywhere you want
- Converting thin jails to thick jails
- using syncthing between my OSX laptop and my FreeBSD server
- Getting ‘FreeBSD-10.2 is vulnerable’ messages on a 12.0 host
- Double timestamps in logs
- Upgrading to FreeBSD 12.0 from FreeBSD 11.2 using beadm and freebsd-update
- Collecting statistics from bind / named
- Configuring LibreNMS Nginx statistics
- Adding a zroot pool to an existing system
- x8dtu
- knew
- zpool: FAULTED – too many errors
- degraded zpool
- Running FreeBSD on OSX using xhyve, a port of bhyve
- newsyslog: chmod(/var/log/auth.log.6.bz2) in change_attrs: No such file or directory
- PostgreSQL – convert a user to a role
- knew
- Perl @INC – customizing it for FreeBSD
- Using mtqq to create a notification network: mosquitto, mqttwarn, hare, and hared
- Book Review: Ed Mastery
- Creating read-only PostgreSQL database users for pg_dump and pg_dumpall
- Trying iocage to get an old version of FreeBSD
- tape02
- Adding IPv6 to an Nginx website on FreeBSD / FreshPorts
- Moving bacula-sd into a FreeBSD jail
- R710 – getting the drives ready
- Converting a Dell R710 into a ZFS-based FreeBSD 11.1 tape library bacula-sd
- x8dtu
- Moving FreshPorts
- Dumping PostgreSQL 9.4 to upgrade to PostgreSQL 9.6
- /etc/rc.subr: 1391: Syntax error: “fi”: unexpected
- Upgrading from FreeBSD 10.3 to 11.1 via freebsd-update and beadm
- Moving boot from one zpool to another
- knew
- Moving from zroot from one zpool to another
- Running PHP on Nginx
- Bacula – ran out of space, moved some volumes to another zpool
- Bacula – copy to tape by job size
- FreeBSD – what processes in what jails are using swap?
- knew
- Booting off the new 5TB drives
- subversion via ssh passphrase-less key
- After replacing 3TB drive with 5TB drive, FreeBSD 10.3 system did not reboot
- Logging, backups, and newsyslog.conf on FreeBSD
- Swapping 5TB in, 3TB out
- PostgreSQL – logging to a file
- Creating a gmirror swap
- cert-puller: using anvil to pull down & install new certificates, then restart services
- anvil – copying the certificates to the website
- cert-shifter: copying certificates from acme.sh to a fresh directory
- Introducing anvil – Tools for distributing ssl certificates
- acme.sh: getting free SSL certificates – installation configuration on FreeBSD
- My first big Tarsnap backup
- Creating an Apple Time Capsule using FreeBSD & ZFS
- x8dtu
- Pentabarf email tokens
- Using device.hints to wire physical devices to specific names
- ansible: Timeout waiting for privilege escalation prompt
- Server freeze – 2014.12.14
- system freezes up with lots of sonewconn Listen queue overflow
- Flashing an LSI SAS 9201-16i
- leapsecond file (‘/var/db/ntpd.leap-seconds.list’): expired less than N days ago
- PGCon 2016 charity auction
- Using Bacula’s btape speed test on FreeBSD 10.2 and an LTO-4 tape drive
- Adding SLOG to a zpool
- knew
- Importing a zpool and renaming it
- Adding in a SAS card renumbered my devices
- Adding a failed HDD back into a ZFS mirror
- Added new drive when existing one gave errors, then zpool replace
- smartd: Device: /dev/ada0, 8 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors persists
- smartd: Device: /dev/ada0, 8 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
- Using a Dell TL4000 with Bacula’s bacula-sd on FreeBSD with ZFS
- Dell TL4000 tape library: running btape and configuring Bacula’s mtx-changer
- tape01
- tape01
- Uncorrectable parity/CRC error
- Bacula btape test of Dell TL4000 LTO-4 tape drives
- tape01
- tape01
- Oh! There’s my missing tape drive!
- tape01 – old server; new purpose
- OSX Mail crashes when using TunnelBlick and setting DNS/WINS
- Installing net-mgmt/net-snmpd and getting it running
- Deleting files from /usr/, breaking your system, then recovering
- Swapping disks in a zpool
- Smart quotes are not so smart: net-snmp-config –create-snmpv3-user for LibreNMS
- CAM status: ATA Status Error READ_DMA48 Error 5, Retries exhausted
- Replacing a failed drive in ZFS on FreeBSD
- smartctl -t long /dev/allthedrives
- smartd: ATA error count increased from 0 to 1
- smartd: Device: 8 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
- Nagios check_ntp_time failed with ntpd on FreeBSD 10.2
- Configuring unbound on FreeBSD 10.x
- varm
- New external HDD
- More Bacula Excludes with Jails and FreeBSD
- WordPress and Fail2ban
- Excluding the base-OS when backing up FreeBSD jails with Bacula
- logstash problems
- drive letters changed?
- ezjail with freebsd-update
- What I would do differently when upgrading from 9.3 to 10.1
- Upgrading from FreeBSD 9.3 to FreeBSD 10.1 using beadm and freebsd-update
- system/bootenv/default/var does not contain /var
- Building for new version of system
- Fixing the system/bootenv/default/usr to be mounted
- now it’s not there, now it is
- Modifying a ZFS root system to a beadm layout
- Getting started with iocage for jails on FreeBSD
- tallboy
- Another zroot install
- zfs send | zfs receive as non-root
- Cannot find any appendable volumes – Bacula
- freebsd-update failed an integrity check
- Bacula helps me solve a mergemaster problem which broke Bacula
- Failure with freebsd-update; how not to upgrade your systems
- nullfs mounts in a jail
- Testing email delivery
- Bacula on FreeBSD with ZFS
- sudo: unable to initialize PAM: Exec format error
- You don’t have permission to access /pipermail/bsdcan-announce/ on this server – mailman
- zfs-stats for slocum
- pg_dump: aborting because of server version mismatch
- zfs-stats for knew
- zpool upgrade calls for gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot
- Adding two new drives (SSD) to an existing ZFS system
- Monitoring backups via Nagios and a shell script
- InnoDB: Error: log file ./ib_logfile0 is of different size 0 50331648 bytes
- Getting snmpwalk to talk to snmpd on FreeBSD
- Bacula restore using a regex
- rndc: neither /usr/local/etc/rndc.conf nor /usr/local/etc/rndc.key was found
- gelt
- When ssh and ansible play poorly together
- Cunning plan for upgrading jails
- Getting logstash-forwarder working
- Are FreeBSD jails being shutdown properly?
- ssh key management
- Want 8.3 in a poudriere jail? Nope.
- OpenVPN clients don’t react well when the server goes down
- Running multiple concurrent poudriere builds
- Which repo will pkg install from on FreeBSD?
- FreeBSD custom port patches when using poudriere
- poudriere: options, it’s all about options
- named: error sending response: host unreachable
- Nagios plugin for pkg audit (replacing portaudit) on FreeBSD
- zfs receive stalled, filesystem 95% full
- zfs send on FreeBSD over ssh using mbuffer
- A list of jails
- nagios – acknowledge a service problem – Send Notification default unchecked
- Getting RabbitMQ running: FreeBSD 9.2
- Did your system tell you about security updates?
- USB device not working on FreeBSD?
- Installing packages from a custom FreeBSD repository
- Using poudriere to create a custom FreeBSD repository for package installation
- Installing ezjail 3.3 on FreeBSD 9.2 using ZFS
- Older versions of Bacula – copy/migrate has limit of 99 jobs
- Bacula btape test of Compaq Storage Works MSL5026 Library
- Using the Compaq Storage Works MSL5026 Library
- daily run output not parsing smartd output correctly
- Bacula: indexing on media.lastwritten
- Nagios smartmon stops working after python upgrade
- How much space is used by my ZFS snapshots
- kernel: sonewconn: pcb 0xc8d5b000: Listen queue overflow: 193 already in queue awaiting acceptance
- Script for listing the latest ZFS snapshot – starting place for Bacula backups
- FreeBSD jails on non-routable IP addresses
- Accessing FreeBSD Jails over OpenVPN
- Bootstrapping a new FreeBSD jail host as an Ansible node
- zuul
- Ansible versus Salt
- Routing with jails
- Exciting project ahead
- Bootstrapping / installing pkg on FreeBSD unattended and without answering Yes
- running OpenVPN as something other than nobody:nobody
- Bacula – client changes host name
- Adding a tape library to Bacula
- OpenVPN and dynamic DNS
- can’t re-use a leaf or module_register: module g_label already exists
- zpool upgrade to get lz4_compress
- nagios plugin check_pgsql can’t handle all valid database names
- svn: E170000: Unrecognized URL scheme
- Nvi saved the file sudoers.tmp
- mounting the FreshPorts chroot within a jail
- doveadm cannot work without a tty
- Interesting jail/OpenVPN reading
- Accessing every jail from a VPN
- ezjail-jail: making a full backup of a FreeBSD jail with Bacula
- Using mbox for mail backup
- Using nullmailer instead of a full blown mail server
- Using ezjail-admin archive to create a new jail, almost like an existing jail
- One StartCOM cert works; the other does not
- Postfix client certificate verification
- different times despite running ntpd
- Things to do
- ZFS system hits high load during scrub
- named and forwarding
- Creating a FreeBSD jail to run DHCP and DNS
- knew
- slocum
- The new gateway configuration
- Using Bacula in a jail
- Moving Bacula Volumes from one Storage to Another
- nagios check for Bacula Pool volumes
- Adding in the new SCSI card
- Strict Standards: Declaration of Suffusion_MM_Walker::start_el() should be compatible with Walker::start_el
- ezjail-admin: moving a jail between hosts with archive
- sudo: effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed setuid root?
- nagios check_smartmon fails with SATA presented as SCSI devices
- Moving zfs datasets / filesystems around
- zfs send | zfs receive; finally finished
- newsyslog: can’t notify daemon, pid 2090: No such process
- zfs send taking a while…
- zfs send from old file server
- raidz2: 10 disks – half and half
- raidz2: 10 disks vs 8 disks
- Problem with disk numbering in my ZFS creation script
- ZFS: raidz2 with 8 or 10 disks?
- Gateway getting old; File server getting full
- Compiling bacula client gives link errors
- FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Function not implemented
- nrpe: Could not read request from client, bailing out…
- discard frame w/o leading ethernet header
- viewvc errors after upgrading subversion
- pg_restore: [custom archiver] could not read from input file: end of file
- Authentication tried for dan with correct key but not from a permitted host
- sshd: error: key_read: uudecode failed
- Converting from cvs to svn
- Using compression with PostgreSQL’s pg_dump
- Bacula – AfterJob: Host key verification failed
- nagios – check_ping CRITICAL – You need more args!!! Could not open pipe:
- ezjail – renaming, moving, and renumbering
- Restricting IP addresses to specific databases
- The Bacula Tutorial jail server
- Creating a ZFS-only box – the first look
- Even bonnie++ shows the 50% performance hit
- Deleting old Bacula Volumes
- Bacula: When did that file change size?
- ssl-admin: revoking a certificate
- ZFS tuning
- The hardware is ready. What tests to run?
- Testing the benchmark scripts – 1
- Benchmarking the TOSHIBA DT01ACA300 – ZFS
- How I upgrade my WordPress installations
- zfsroot guides – which one to use?
- ZIL mirroring no longer vital
- Benchmarking the Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series DXM03B0Q – ZFS
- MIRROR/gm0 has changed from COMPLETE to DEGRADED
- Aligned versus not aligned
- Aligning disk partitions for better throughput
- Installing FreeBSD 9.1 into a gmirror
- ssl-admin
- Bacula: TLS Allowed CN
- Killing spammers
- PGCon 2013 call for papers
- Adding Nagios checks for tape drives / libraries
- Bacula? Why you no mount?
- Multi-site WordPress installation
- Hardcoding device names
- Testing a tape library
- Adding a new tape library
- cannot open SCSI device ‘/dev/pass11’ – Permission denied
- It was the SCSI cable
- WordPress Migration: Tidying up the comments
- WordPress Migration: Updating the comment signatures
- WordPress Migration: redirecting old URLs
- Miscellaneous cables for the server
- Designing a new server, part II
- Designing a new server
- WordPress Migration: Importing the comments
- WordPress Migration: Getting all the authors
- WordPress Migration: The import
- Idea from Kris Moore – PC-BSD
- WordPress Migration: stripping out headers/footers, etc
- WordPress Migration: : The first attempts
- This is the article title
- Pentabarf travel
- Importing data into WordPress
- Destroying some unneeded ZFS snapshots
- Bacula volumes – running low on disk space
- OK, let’s compare
- Keeping Fruity running
- jail: fetch: transfer timed out / protocol not supported
- jail: execv: /bin/sh: No such file or directory
- Upgrading to Bacula database version 14
- Pentabarf authentication issues
- PGCon 2012 schedule released
- Pentabarf travel
- Pentabarf fix
- Such devious spam
- ZFS details – just in case
- Bacula – Removing labels, then labeling tapes
- PGCon 2011 begins
- Bacula run-after scripts
- PGCon – we’re ready. Are you?
- PGCon 2011 is just two weeks away
- PGCon 2011 update
- Differential backup didn’t use scratch pool
- INQUIRY command Failed
- ZFS benchmarking ideas
- Getting Bacula running on my MacBook / OSX
- Speakers and travel
- PGCon – keynote… made your travel bookings yet?
- PGCon 2011 – registration now open
- PGCon 2011 – schedule released
- Pentabarf hyperlinks
- Pentabarf – exporting the schedule
- PGCon 2011 – schedule delayed
- Copying to tape, missed something….
- Carved in stone
- Oh damn! I should have used screen!
- Bacula – certificates expired
- zfs destroy
- How much are those volumes in the library? (redone)
- AT&T tried to kill BSD
- How much are those volumes in the library?
- Bacula Copy Job
- Why not use the tape that’s there?
- Running a Bacula Copy Job
- pf – cannot define table: Cannot allocate memory
- zfs send | zfs receive
- ntp wasn’t running but Nagios didn’t notice
- Sending out a URL for password reset
- More RAID oddness
- RAID issues
- FreeBSD 7.3 – you don’t want 16 CPUs
- Dual head RADEONHD – screen blanking
- Xorg.0.log for RadeonHD
- xorg.conf for RadeonHD
- ZFS & gmirror & drive renumbering
- Resource containers for FreeBSD jails
- A simple nested loop
- How many FreshPorts accounts are enough?
- Bacula – errors with 5.0.0 backup catalog
- power failure and gmirror
- NRPE: Unable to read output
- smartmontools – patch
- smartmontools
- ZFS – some initial testing
- mirroring the hard drive
- FreeBSD installed on the server
- PGCon 2010 – schedule
- HAST – High Availability Storage
- Got ISO? Create USB boot image
- ZFS tuning
- Tower Case with a cheaper faster CPU
- openvpn replay
- Bacula Configuration
- Bacula Retention Periods
- Graphing
- Big storage
- Pentabarf – seeing the speakers
- “libcroco-0.6.so.3” not found
- mtx-changer script catches me
- Upgrading Pentabarf
- Faster backups
- Migrating some Bacula jobs
- Bacula – moving File storage
- What jobs are on these tapes?
- LANG prevents PostgreSQL initdb
- qemu – running emulation
- PGCon 2009 Schedule released
- Moving my PGP from Windows to KDE
- Bacula 3.0
- Migrating one Bacula Volume to another
- Avoiding dynamic IP address woes with a VPN
- SVN commits now available
- Database load times
- openx upgrade issues
- stunnel “local socket: Protocol not supported”
- cfengine – practical examples
- MySQL bought. PostgreSQL not for sale.
- OSCON 2007 – the details, the people
- Good bye IPsec. Hello OpenVPN.
- cacti – remove injection exploit
- Bacula – Network Backups
- The PostgreSQL Conference
- Bacula – restoring to Windows
- Burst and Google make a good team
- Fundraising for new hardware
- Bacula from a newbie’s point of view
- Bacula – notes on upgrading to 1.38.5
- Changes to the FreeBSD SCSI drive to make it more like Solaris/Linux
- New Bacula projects announced
- Over 1 year of uptime
- Dan does Utah!
- Bacula – your time to donate!
- Debian is going well
- Into the Debian world I venture…
- Avoiding deadlock on FreshPorts
- Firewall upgrade – progress
- Upgrading the Firewall
- Phorum 3 – hostname too small
- Are your PHP pages observing Last-Modified?
- BSDCan 2005