This is just rough notes for myself. List the gpart output for each drive in my system. for drive in $(sysctl -n kern.disks) do gpart show $drive done gpart: No such geom: da11. => 40 9767541088 da10 GPT (4.5T) 40 8392664 – free – (4.0G) 8392704 9758048256 3 freebsd-zfs (4.5T) 9766440960 1100168 – free – (537M) => 40 976773088 da9 GPT (466G) 40 2008 – free – (1.0M) 2048 838860800 1 freebsd-zfs (400G) […]
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Home Assistant is not friendly for plain installs. It seems designed for containers or running everything out of pip install. That, in itself, is a disturbing trend I’ve seen on several projects (what? you’re not running a git cloned image?). I’ve seen reports of people running containers etc. However, I want to run this on FreeBSD. I don’t want to muck about with installing containers etc. If containers are the only way for
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For years I’ve run the dev, test, and stage nodes for FreshPorts off servers in my basement. This meant that those hostnames have always pointed at my home IP address. I’d like to change that. I first started this using interactive commands (e.g. wg set) but found that approach unsatisfactory. I think directly editing the configuration file to be more intuitive and easily followed. I left my first approach up because it had
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NOTE: I wrote this, got stuck, then went a slightly different direction: I stopped using wg set Instead, I updated the configuration files directly I was not satisfied with the wg approach Although it is great for modifying things on the file, I don’t think it helps novices learn Wireguard I’m leaving it here anyway. Please use Creating a wireguard connection between my home and colo instead. None of these keys/IP addresses are
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Here I am, sitting on a beach, writing a blog post, and sipping a cool adult beverage. Reading email. I see this: I quickly ssh into the host to check zpool status: Lines 15-17 are relevant. There was a resilver event, which completed at 08:49:48 The vdev state changed event occurred at 08:49:34 That all seems to tie in, time-wise. More info than you want This displays vdev guids: Line 11 shows the
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When updating to FreeBSD 13.1, I started getting these messages from sysutils/logcheck: egrep: trailing backslash (\) This post will document how I tracked down the problem. It is occurring on several hosts. In this post: FreeBSD 13.1 logcheck-1.3.24 Other similar issues I suspect the issue arises because of the change from egrep 2.5.1 under FreeBSD 12.3 to egrep 2.6.0 under FreeBSD 13.1. After the upgrade, I also encountered some egrep: empty (sub)expression messages
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In this post, I will talk about how I modified my pkg configuration so I don’t have to modify it after upgrading a host/jail from one version of FreeBSD to another. You might say that you don’t have to do that. Perhaps you have a different configuration and aren’t doing what I’m doing. HEADS UP: I hit a problem with this approach when updating a jail using mkjail: see https://github.com/mkjail/mkjail/issues/30 In this post:
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Today I encountered this. [r720-01 dan ~] % sudo freebsd-update fetch install 14:39:01 Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors… 2 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 13.0-RELEASE from update1.freebsd.org… done. Fetching metadata index… done. The update metadata is correctly signed, but failed an integrity check. Cowardly refusing to proceed any further. I confirmed it was just the fetch portion. [r720-01 dan ~] % sudo freebsd-update fetch 14:42:08 Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors… 2 mirrors found. Fetching
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It was May 2021 when I tweeted about monitoring FreeBSD jails which had jail IP addresses only in the 127.0.0.0/8 range. Yesterday, nearly 6 months later, I did the first test of this. This came up because I’m getting a new FreshPorts node ready. I’ve created a file in the jail to be run from the host. That script runs in the jail but it initiated by a process on the host. In
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This started off as a Twitter thread earlier this morning. databases/mysql57-client has an optional dependency on security/cyrus-sasl2 which defaults to on. Let’s try turning that off and see if it also removes openldap-client from the dependency list. Why? I install net-mgmt/nagios-plugins in just above every jail and host. Even hosts which don’t use MySQL. I use poudriere to build all my own packages. I added this entry: # Trying to avoid pulling in
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