Today the drive caddies arrived for the R720. I refer to the services provided by the R710, not the server itself. I will list those services later and outline how I want to move them. I could do all this over this coming weekend but I have already allocated that time to some errands I […]
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In my recent post you saw this: [dan@r720-01 ~]$ zpool status zroot pool: zroot state: ONLINE scan: resilvered 818M in 0 days 00:00:09 with 0 errors on Tue Oct 15 21:32:12 2019 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM zroot ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 ada0p3 ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/zfs1 ONLINE
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I planned to create a zroot mirror when I installed FreeBSD on the R720 but the supplier shipped only one of the two purchased SSDs. Today the second drive arrived. Let’s create a zroot mirror. In this post: FreeBSD 12 man 8 zpool Posts I looked at: creating a mirrored ZFS Pool out of a
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I have obtained a Dell R720 containing 10 x 400GB SSDs. The drives are connected to a RAID controller (H710P) which cannot do JBOD / IT mode. This means the drives are effectively hidden from ZFS, which is never good. In this post: FreeBSD 12.0 ZFS Dell R720 SAS 9207-8i This post describes past work
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I have scripts for monitoring vulns in FreeBSD jails. They use third-party scripts. All I wrote was the Nagios part of the solution. I was preparing slides for my Why I prefer thick jails over thin jails talk at EuroBSDCon 2019. There is still time to register and attend. I was explaining my scripts and
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zi0r suggested I use hooks to accomplish my patches-outside-distfiles question. In this post: FreeBSD 12.0 poudriere 3.3.2 I started reading the documentation and played with the supplied sample files in /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/hooks. For background, see FreeBSD custom port patches when using poudriere. Eventually I came up with this solution: mkdir during the start phase mount during
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’ve been making use of some FreeBSD-provided scripts within my Nagios monitoring. Recently, I started seeing a problem after some jail maintenance. This post is about that problem and the fix. Full disclosure: the issue was not what I thought it was and I did not solve it. I’m using: FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p9 The scripts are:
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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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