There are known problems with vnet and firewalls. I’ve been plagued by such issues for months. In this case, my git jail, I’m giving up and moving away from vnet jails. This post documents how I did this. Get the IP address Make sure you know the existing IP address of that jail. It might be defined within the jail, via /etc/rc.conf. It might be in the jail configuration. I ssh‘d into the […]
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I noticed a problem with a newly-created freshports daemon script: starting it would sometime freeze the terminal session. The rc.d script The rc.d script was fairly straight forward: Nothing odd there, right? This first happened a week or so ago. I moved on it and decided to look into later. But wait, there’s more This issue came up again today. The system would be processing incoming commits and it would hang. It would
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See also Creating read-only PostgreSQL database users for pg_dump and pg_dumpall. I’m linking this because I use both articles on a regular basis. The error After a recent upgrade of MySQL server from 5.7.30 to 5.7.31, my database backups started encountered this error: mysqldump: Error: ‘Access denied; you need (at least one of) the PROCESS privilege(s) for this operation’ when trying to dump tablespaces The search Searching, I found a Kanyakonil post which
Every time I go to create a new iocage jail, I cannot remember out the command. Here we go, for next time: iocage create -n devgit-ingress01 –thickjail host_hostname=devgit-ingress01.int.unixathome.org ip4_addr=10.0.0.141 –release 12.1-RELEASE iocage create -n devgit-nginx01 –thickjail host_hostname=devgit-nginx01.int.unixathome.org ip4_addr=10.0.0.147 –release 12.1-RELEASE
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I am replacing one zroot with another because of missing binaries and suspect layout. The existing zroot is an old system predating current zroot layouts. This work is being performed on a test system (that link is not safe for young eyes). In this post: FreeBSD 12.1 mfsBSD 12.1 The failed attempt I tried once, and failed, with with old zroot_old and new zroot_new mounted. zroot_new became unusable and I started again. This
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Every time I go to burn a new image to a thumbdrive I have to remember how. This post aims to fix that so I can just look it up. Case in point: mfsBSD I have downloaded mfsbsd-12.1-RELEASE-amd64.img from https://mfsbsd.vx.sk/files/images/12/amd64/ From the same URL I’ve looked in mfsbsd-12.1-RELEASE-amd64.img.sums.txt and grabbed the md5 hash. I verified the downloaded file via: [dan@pro02:~/Downloads] $ md5 mfsbsd-12.1-RELEASE-amd64.img | grep a79046a330938d284167dac08cc0bfcb MD5 (mfsbsd-12.1-RELEASE-amd64.img) = a79046a330938d284167dac08cc0bfcb Yes, that matches.
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I wrote this post late one night while pondering how to solve this problem. I may have solved it with much less effort. I want to copy a zroot from old drives to new drives. The new drives are in a test box of mine. Once the new drives are configured, I will replace the existing mirror with them. Not shown here, I have already installed FreeBSD 12.1 on the new drives. I
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Today I was updating some servers. One of them was rebooted three times. On the third time, one of the drives went missing. This is how I tracked down which drive, and which slot in the server, and fixed it. I’m writing it mostly so I can remember how to flash the light on the drive. There is also an off-by-one issue to avoid. In this post: FreeBSD 12.1 sesutil ZFS Supermicro 846
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I’m in the final stages of the FreshPorts packages project. One of the last tasks is clearing the packages cache from disk when new package information is loaded into the database. See also: Clearing the packages cache ZFS when you’re not doing ZFS Several of the configuration items have been learned from putting my poudriere instance into a jail. In this post: FreeBSD 12.1 py37-iocage-1.2_5 If I was to do this cache clearing
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Last night the MySQL server instance in my dbclone jail stopped working. This is the jail into which copies of all my databases eventually go for test restores and backups. This morning I tried started it: [dan@dbclone:~] $ sudo service mysql-server start /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server: WARNING: failed precmd routine for mysql My initial search suggested removing /var/db/mysql (this will lose all your data). Since this was a testing server, I tried it. No success. I
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