When upgrading to LibreNMS 1.53.1, your website will not load. You’ll see a message saying check the logs. There will be nothing useful in the logs. I checked. Nothing. This is how I fixed the loading issue. In this post: FreeBSD 12.0 LibreNMS 1.51 running in a jail Upgrading to 1.53.1 First attempts Running as www OK, let’s run that as www. Eh? What? References Searching around, I found nothing useful. I found […]
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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 certs). The cert looked OK: [dan@webs01:/usr/local/www/certs.unixathome.org/www/certs/x8dtu.unixathome.org] $ ls -l total 14 -rw-r–r– 1 rsyncer rsyncer 1647 May 11
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: 405.pkg-base-audit 410.pkg-audit Where are they from? $ pkg which /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/405.pkg-base-audit /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/405.pkg-base-audit was installed by package base-audit-0.3 You don’t
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ZFS is very flexible about mountpoints, and there are many features available to provide great flexibility. When you create your second zpool this is what it might look like: $$ zfs list -r main_tank NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT main_tank 893G 3.52T 96K /main_tank main_tank/data 786G 3.52T 88K /main_tank/data main_tank/data/dvl 755G 3.52T 755G /main_tank/data/dvl main_tank/data/freshports 31.4G 3.52T 88K /main_tank/data/freshports main_tank/data/freshports/backend 3.11G 3.52T 88K /main_tank/data/freshports/backend This is a pool I created long ago, but
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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 a problem. I raised an issue and wrote a better script which I have since used on a
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We know the routine. You have a desktop, and a laptop, or perhaps two laptops. You want your files in both places. A shared, remotely mounted directory is not ideal. Instead, let’s have the systems synchronize themselves. That’s where syncthing comes in: Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is
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I started playing with /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/405.pkg-base-audit as part of a monitoring system. It works fine from the command line, but when I use Nagios plugins, I am getting unexpected results. By unexpected, I mean messages about FreeBSD 10.2. The host in question runs FreeBSD 12.0. The problem cannot be reproduced on the host, only from the Nagios monitoring host. Oh wait, the Nagios monitoring host is a jail on the host in question. That
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I noticed some double timestamps in my logs recently. They started just after I upgraded the host to FreeBSD 12, but I am not convinced they are related. This is from /var/log/messsages: Jan 22 21:41:40 knew 1 2019-01-22T21:41:40.760533+00:00 knew.int.unixathome.org pkg 89351 – – py36-iocage-devel upgraded: 1.0.0.20181219,1 -> 1.0.0.20190122,1 They started late yesterday, this is from /var/log/maillog: Jan 21 22:28:58 knew 1 2019-01-21T22:28:58.677083+00:00 knew.int.unixathome.org postfix/anvil 42521 – – statistics: max connection rate 1/60s for
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Today I will upgrade knew from FreeBSD 11.2 to FreeBSD 12.0. It so happens that this is my last server at home which is still running 11.2, but I do have another server still on 11.2, but that one is at NYI. This post isn’t so much about beadm or about freebsd-update. I have written about moving to a beadm layout, but if your zfs list output looks something like this, you’re good
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I use bind (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) as my DNS server. I am currently running bind 9.11.5P1 on FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p8 in a jail, with iocage as my jail manager. The OS, jail, and jail manager should play no part in how this works. I have been collecting statistics from bind for some time. I have configured LibreNMS to collect the details via snmpd and they are plotted in a lovely looking graph. The
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