Jails

ezjail-jail: making a full backup of a FreeBSD jail with Bacula

I’ve been using Bacula since early 2004. I’ve been using FreeBSD since 1998. Jails are a relatively newcomer. I starting using it later in 2004. But it’s only recently that I’ve started using them intensively. Backups are always a touchy subject. With ezjail, the files you need to backup are greatly reduced. You’re not backing

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Using ezjail-admin archive to create a new jail, almost like an existing jail

I use FreeBSD Jails. I use them a lot. I have jails for websites. I have jails for regression testing, mail servers, OpenVPN servers, etc. I like jails for many reasons. One of which is being able to create a new jail which is pretty much identical to another jail, except for a few things.

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sudo: effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed setuid root?

Tonight I created a new jail, and later installed sudo into that jail. Then I tried to run sudo: $ sudo make install clean sudo: effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed setuid root? What? It is setuid: $ ls -l `which sudo` -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 117112 Jul 26 17:08 /usr/local/bin/sudo I had

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FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Function not implemented

I recently upgraded a jail server from FreeBSD 8.2 to FreeBSD 8.4. This stopped various jails from starting their own instances of PostgreSQL. The messages in the logs were: Jul 9 14:48:48 building postgres[40785]: [2-1] FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Function not implemented Jul 9 14:48:48 building postgres[40785]: [2-2] DETAIL: Failed system call

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nrpe: Could not read request from client, bailing out…

I recently upgraded a jail server from FreeBSD 8.2 to 8.4, and part of that process involved recompiling all of the applications. Along the way, nrpe on one jail stopped working. Nagios was reporting: CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds. Trying from the command line gave: $ /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_nrpe2 -H -H dbclone.example.org -c check_pgsql -t 1

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nagios – check_ping CRITICAL – You need more args!!! Could not open pipe:

I’ve been moving some services around lately. A server is dying and I need to move stuff off it. Today I managed to move Bacula and Nagios onto a new server. After a short bit of struggle, I had just one service check that was failing: check_ping. Here’s the example: $ /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ping -H bast.example.org -w

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