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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Today I will be installing ezjail 3.3 on a FreeBSD 9.2 system. I will give an overview of the installation and go straight to the configuration of the first jail. As I type this, I’m looking back at my old notes from 2008. Installation I installed ezjail with this command: pkg install ezjail Configuration Enable
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Last night I started to catch up on copying jobs from disk to tape. There were about 420 incremental jobs waiting. I started my CopyToTape-Inc job, and it queued up 417 jobs: The next morning, all jobs had completed, but there were still jobs left to be copied over (as determined by my magical Bacula
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This output is a Bacula btape test of the library mentioned in this post. $ sudo btape -c /usr/local/etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf /dev/nsa0 Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes. btape: butil.c:290 Using device: “/dev/nsa0” for writing. btape: btape.c:477 open device “DTL03” (/dev/nsa0): OK *test === Write, rewind, and re-read test === I’m going to write 10000 records and
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I am fortunate to receive donations. In the early days, it was a 386 desktop. Later, it was SCSI drives. Recently, it’s been tape libraries. A Bacula user in Europe donated an Overland DLT-8000 tape library in 2012 and paid for shipping to me. At BSDCan 2013, I was fortunate to pick up an Compaq
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