This post is all about moving poudriere from the host into a jail, but you could probably use it for creating a new jail and running poudriere in it. NOTE: If you’re looking for a jail configuration for poudriere, please refer to Configuration for running poudriere in a jail on FreeBSD 14 – it contains […]
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I was asked why I was exasperated with iocage: This is the list of issues where I found my name. A given issue may be listed multiple times. Oct 2017 – iocage upgrade is looping: https://github.com/iocage/iocage/issues/399 Jun 2018 – cannot run ‘iocage start’ from my home dir: https://github.com/iocage/iocage/issues/567 Aug 2018 – entries in fstab disappear:
Today is the day after BSDCan 2019. The power cables and extension cords from the hacking lounge have been laid to rest in an Ottawa basement until next year. Sitting in my parents garden, I noticed some Nagios cert warnings: I logged into my certificates server (the website from which all my hosts download their
I have been using ezjail since at least 2008 (see earlier blog post). A few years ago, I started deploying iocage on new servers. About three months ago, I starting converting systems from ezjail to iocage. When I converted my first system, I found that the existing documentation for conversion was incomplete. Specifically, symlinks were
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I use bind (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) as my DNS server. I am currently running bind 9.11.5P1 on FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p8 in a jail, with iocage as my jail manager. The OS, jail, and jail manager should play no part in how this works. I have been collecting statistics from bind for some time. I have
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Sometimes you just need that old version. So I installed it. FreeBSD 9.3 Sorry, but this article is light. I stopped taking notes after a bit…. We created a VM via VMware, put FreeBSD 11.1 on it, over ZFS. Then install iocage. This is what it looked like: What did it just install? This: $
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FreshPorts recently moved to an IPv6-capable server but until today, that capability has not been utilized. There were a number of things I had to configure, but this will not necessarily be an exhaustive list for you to follow. Some steps might be missing, and it might not apply to your situation. All of this
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Following on from my post about excluding the base OS with a Bacula FileSet, I decided to exclude some more. The starting point Here are the baselines: What else will I exclude? I decided to exclude the following as well: Adding iocage support Along the way, I extended the Exclude to work on server using
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All of my previous jail hosts have used ezjail. I have recently played with both bsdploy and iocage. The primary purpose of this post is showing you how to install
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