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net-mgmt/net-snmp wants /snmp/snmpd.conf

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NOTE: If you are looking to configure net-mgmt/net-snmp for the first time, the latest article is Configuration of net-mgmt/net-snmp on FreeBSD. snmpd can be royal pain to configure. I got my hints from Ryan Steinmetz, the maintainer for the FreeBSD port. Lately, net-snmpd has changed how net-snmp-config works. In this post: FreeBSD 12.2 net-snmp-5.9_3,1 Compare my hints with the following, run today with net-snmp-5.9_3,1: [dan@nginx01:~] $ sudo net-snmp-config –create-snmpv3-user -ro -x AES -a […]

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Converting an iocage jail to a vanilla jail

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Tonight I got blocked by iocage and handling a ZFS filesystem from within an iocage jail. These are the steps I followed to convert that jail from iocage to a vanilla jail. The variable To make this solution easier to use, at least for me, on future jail migrations, I have these variables: For example, my devgit-nginx01 jail is at: [dan@knew:~] $ zfs list system/iocage/jails/mysql56 NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT system/iocage/jails/mysql56 11.5G 20.6T

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Preventing a given package from being installed

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I have a few development jails dedicated to my work on FreshPorts. It’s been a hobby of mine since the late 1990s. The code I create gets packaged, ready to deploy onto the test, stage, and production hosts. What I absolutely do not want to happen, and it’s happened recently, is for those packages to be installed on the development environments. Why? It installs to the same location as the working copy of

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The replacement – a followup

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Yesterday, I started a zpool replace. It finished overnight, and dropped the suspect drive out of the vdev. The resilver finished in the middle of the night: As you can see, da22p1 has taken the place of da17p1. The resilver took As the new drive is being resilvered, I started looking at metrics. Here is gstat. Look at how da22, the replacement drive is getting all the writes, compared to the others. LibreNMS

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smartctl output TOSHIBA MD04ACA500 653AK2MXFS9A

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It is time to replace /dev/da17 in knew. The replacement drive is also documented. The replacement procedure has also been documented. An upcoming blog post will document the replacement. I’m seeing these messages: Dec 12 09:23:03 knew smartd[2124]: Device: /dev/da17 [SAT], 40 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Dec 12 09:53:04 knew syslogd: last message repeated 1 times Dec 12 10:23:03 knew syslogd: last message repeated 1 times Dec 12 10:53:04 knew syslogd: last message

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Hosting multiple web servers behind a single IP address

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Virtual hosts for a website are a thing. One webserver can host multiple websites. They can all be on the same IP address, different IP addresses, different ports, etc. This post is about using a proxy service. Before I started with this solution, at home I hosted every website on the same server. My firewall would redirect incoming ports 80 and 443 to my webserver, and Nginx/Apache would take care of the rest.

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Recalibrating an APC UPS

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This work was done in August. Since then, I have replaced the APC with an Eaton 5PX, and I am much happier. This might make for interesting reading, but that depends on how bored you are.. Following on from my failed calibration attempts, I thought I would try it again this morning before work. In this post: APC UPS SUA2200RM2U with a AP9619 Network Management card LibreNMS 1.66 FreeBSD 12.1 Before It’s 1132

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Duplicating a zpool

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I have these boot drives, I want to copy them to another. They both happen to be zroot and bootable. I booted from mfsBSD and imported both new and old zroot, using the pool ID shown by zpool import -N. root@mfsbsd:~ # zpool import -N pool: data01 id: 2668514456528412656 state: ONLINE action: The pool can be imported using its name or numeric identifier. config: data01 ONLINE mirror-0 ONLINE gpt/S59VNS0N809087J_S00 ONLINE gpt/S59VNJ0N631973D_S01 ONLINE mirror-1

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nut – testing the shutdown mechanism

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Following on from my recent nut setup, this is the second in a series of three posts. The next post will deal with adjusting startup and shutdown times to be sure everything proceeds as required. I want to test the host shutdown mechanism without: unplugging the UPS from the mains powering off the UPS without powering off the servers I have just updated all the hosts and the jails on those hosts. This

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Monitoring your UPS using nut on FreeBSD

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It is time to replace my existing UPS with another one. I’m getting only 3 minutes of runtime with the existing batteries (and new batteries, after recalibration). It was suggested I buy an Eaton 5PX. I wasn’t convinced. This is the first of three articles about nut. The second is about testing the shutdown. The third will be about testing both shutdown and startup timings. Two days later, I’d purchased a new Eaton

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