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Upgrading from FreeBSD 9.3 to FreeBSD 10.1 using beadm and freebsd-update

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In this post, I will use boot environments to upgrade an existing FreeBSD 9.3 to FreeBSD 10.1, and I will do this from within a chroot. Why? Because I can. You might want to read about my previous attempt and one or two, actually three, things I did to get ready for this. In the following commands, I clone the existing running environment to 10.1-RELEASE, then I mount it to /mnt, chroot into […]

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Modifying a ZFS root system to a beadm layout

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Today I sat down to install some packages on a server I just configured for Ansible and iocage. I failed. My poudriere host runs FreeBSD 9.3 and can build for older version of FreeBSD but not newer versions. Solution: upgrade that host. I will be using beadm to allow me to keep my existing 9.3 and create a new 10.1 on the same host. I will be able to switch between the two

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Failure with freebsd-update; how not to upgrade your systems

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freebsd-update is a great tool. It reduces my workload. It’s hard to use it wrong, but I have managed to do so. So have other people. Yesterday, three of us encountered the same issue. We did it wrong. We didn’t do it wrong yesterday. We did it wrong months ago, and now it’s come back to haunt us. NOTE if you ever see: Undefined symbol “ssh_explicit_bzero” on a FreeBSD server, you probably have

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Nagios plugin for pkg audit (replacing portaudit) on FreeBSD

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I’m using FreeBSD 9.2 and Nagios 3.5.1. A few weeks ago I wrote about freebsd-update reminding you to upgrade your affected systems. Since then, freebsd-update has continued to send me false positives about upgrading. Suggestions have been made that I track down Colin Percival at BSDCan 2014, which starts in few days. However, I know at least four people have already arrived, two days before any official event, the first of which is

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