freebsd-update failed an integrity check
I encountered this issue today on a FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p4 system. The solution: freebsd-update fetch install and then a reboot.
freebsd-update failed an integrity check Read More »
Open Source
Bacula helps me solve a mergemaster problem which broke Bacula
Earlier today, I saw a bunch of emails like this: for <root@localhos>; Wed, 21 Jan 2015 20:32:36 +0000 (UTC) From: root@localhost.example.org (Bacula) Subject: Bacula: Copy Fatal Error of crey-fd Full Sender: bacula@bacula.example.org To: root@localhost.example.org Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 20:32:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-Id: <20150121203236.E993D2B28@bacula.example.org> X-Gm-Original-To: dan@example.org 21-Jan 20:32 bacula-dir JobId 197313: Warning: FileSet MD5 digest not found. 21-Jan 20:32 bacula-dir JobId 197313: The following 1 JobId was chosen to be copied: 197238 21-Jan
Bacula helps me solve a mergemaster problem which broke Bacula Read More »
Failure with freebsd-update; how not to upgrade your systems
freebsd-update is a great tool. It reduces my workload. It’s hard to use it wrong, but I have managed to do so. So have other people. Yesterday, three of us encountered the same issue. We did it wrong. We didn’t do it wrong yesterday. We did it wrong months ago, and now it’s come back to haunt us. NOTE if you ever see: Undefined symbol “ssh_explicit_bzero” on a FreeBSD server, you probably have
Failure with freebsd-update; how not to upgrade your systems Read More »
nullfs mounts in a jail
Just a note for myself. I had this kind of thing in /etc/fstab so I could share one installation of plugins and themes for WordPress. /usr/local/wordress/plugins /usr/jails/freebsddiary.org/usr/local/www/wordpress/plugins nullfs ro,nosuid,noexec,late 0 0 /usr/local/wordress/themes /usr/jails/freebsddiary.org/usr/local/www/wordpress/themes nullfs ro,nosuid,noexec,late 0 0 /usr/local/wordress/plugins /usr/jails/news.freshports.org/usr/local/www/wordpress/plugins nullfs ro,nosuid,noexec,late 0 0 /usr/local/wordress/themes /usr/jails/news.freshports.org/usr/local/www/wordpress/themes nullfs ro,nosuid,noexec,late 0 0 Then I moved them to their respective ezjail /etc/fstab.new_freshports_org files. They didn’t mount. Solution: remove ,late
nullfs mounts in a jail Read More »
Testing email delivery
The solution Here is the solution. You can stop reading now: ./check_email_delivery –smtp-server smtp.example.org –mailto dan@example.org \ –mailfrom dan@example.org \ –body ‘test, please ignore’ –imapssl \ –imap-server imap.example.org –username deltest –password secret That will test both delivery and receipt. There. Be gone. You don’t need the rest of this article. Thanks. Background As pointed out, this isn’t testing for an email loop. This is testing delivery. I took the term from the phrase
Testing email delivery Read More »
Bacula on FreeBSD with ZFS
Full disclosure: I’m biased. I like the combination of PostgreSQL, FreeBSD, ZFS, and Bacula. In fact, I like it so much, I wrote the PostgreSQL backend for Bacula. Since then, I have been using Bacula for over 10 years. I have backed up to HDD, DDS, DLT, and SDLT. Bacula has proven to be reliable and it just works. Clients are available for a wide range of operating systems and Bacula doesn’t care
Bacula on FreeBSD with ZFS Read More »
sudo: unable to initialize PAM: Exec format error
I tried upgrade some packages tonight, but I found
sudo: unable to initialize PAM: Exec format error Read More »
You don’t have permission to access /pipermail/bsdcan-announce/ on this server – mailman
I ran into this problem today and spent about 2 hours trying to figure out what went wrong. I composed an email to the Mailman mailing list and never sent it, because I solved the problem. Here is that email: Subject: Cannot view archives via website Hello, I think this is solved, but I’m posting anyway. I *think* the issue is one of permission: Apache, running as user www, cannot access the private
You don’t have permission to access /pipermail/bsdcan-announce/ on this server – mailman Read More »
zfs-stats for slocum
Here is the output for zfs-stats on slocum. This represents a 24 hour period. This server acts as my database server (MySQL and PostgreSQL), and runs bacula-dir, but does not store any backups locally. It also houses the dev copy of FreshPorts.
zfs-stats for slocum Read More »
pg_dump: aborting because of server version mismatch
Here’s something to be aware of. Update your PostgreSQL client on your Bacula client if it is used for backing up the Catalog. Ngaios just told me: FILE_AGE WARNING: /usr/backups/bacula/MyCatalog.dump is 45125 seconds old and 0 bytes I looked at the backup job from earlier today: 28-Dec 08:15 bacula-dir JobId 195194: shell command: run BeforeJob “/usr/local/bacula/make_catalog_backup.new MyCatalog” 28-Dec 08:15 bacula-dir JobId 195194: BeforeJob: pg_dump: server version: 9.4.0; pg_dump version: 9.3.5 28-Dec 08:15 bacula-dir
pg_dump: aborting because of server version mismatch Read More »