I’m using FreeBSD 9.2 and Nagios 3.5.1. A few weeks ago I wrote about freebsd-update reminding you to upgrade your affected systems. Since then, freebsd-update has continued to send me false positives about upgrading. Suggestions have been made that I track down Colin Percival at BSDCan 2014, which starts in few days. However, I know […]
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It seems that when I decided to send a filesystem from one server to another, I neglected to establish sufficient space existed. This morning, before I headed to BSDCan, I found that my server was very sluggish and slow to respond. Nagios was flagging all kinds of errors, some of which I’d never seen before.
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I have two ZFS servers which have several TB of space. One of the great ZFS features is the ability to send one filesystem to another filesystem, on the current or another server. I will do this over ssh. One of my servers has a lot of spare space, so I figure I will duplicate
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Here is a list of the jails on the two main hosts I use at home: knew I used to have a host called kraken. I created a server server, kraken-new, or knew. knew performs many tasks: runs Bacula regressions tests against various database versions hosts the backups for my Bacula server runs my home
When I acknowledge a service problem on Nagios, I do not want to send a notification that it has been acknowledge. This patch, against Nagios 3.5.1 changes the default from CHECKED to not checked. With credit to Marc Powell for his suggestion. After that initial success, I went one step further and supplied a default
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I’m starting to play with RabbitMQ as part of a new project. The first goal: get it installed and running. I’m going to do this in a jail running FreeBSD 9.2, but this should be the same if you running a non-jail. I installed via: pkg install rabbitmq In /usr/local/etc/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-env.conf I have the following: NODENAME=bunny@sally
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With all of the activity surrounding the Heartbleed Bug, it was great to see so many people helping out to keep things secure. Of note was the actions of the FreeBSD team in getting out bug fixes. I have three recommendations for you: Follow a release branch (as opposed to stable). Run freebsd-update in cron
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I just set up a new server and kept having a keyboard issue. When powering on, the keyboard worked. When rebooting, it did not. When I tried another USB port, I saw these errors: uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device Errors in /var/log/messages showed: usb_alloc_device: device init 2 failed (USB_ERR_IOERROR, ignored) ugen0.2: at usbus0 (disconnected)
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One of the great things about FreeBSD is the poudriere tool. With it, you can create your own set of customized packages for installation on your server. Today, I will be installing packages in a FreeBSD 9.2 jail. Although I am installing in a jail, the same steps apply to any FreeBSD 9.2 host. In
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I just showed you how I installed ezjail 3.3 on FreeBSD 9.2 and how it uses ZFS for each jail. Today I’m writing about using poudriere to create custom packages for use by pkng. In this post, I will be creating packages on a FreeBSD 9.2 server. Those packages are for running Bacula on FreeBSD
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