I wrote this in October 2016. It was not published until August 2022. I loved being at Grace Hopper. I met some very great people and had the opportunity to talk to them about open source software. I got some great ideas from some folks and I sure hope the stuff I passed on will encourage others to take up open source. There’s money at Grace Hopper. Lots of money. I counted 9 […]
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For years I’ve run the dev, test, and stage nodes for FreshPorts off servers in my basement. This meant that those hostnames have always pointed at my home IP address. I’d like to change that. I first started this using interactive commands (e.g. wg set) but found that approach unsatisfactory. I think directly editing the configuration file to be more intuitive and easily followed. I left my first approach up because it had
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NOTE: I wrote this, got stuck, then went a slightly different direction: I stopped using wg set Instead, I updated the configuration files directly I was not satisfied with the wg approach Although it is great for modifying things on the file, I don’t think it helps novices learn Wireguard I’m leaving it here anyway. Please use Creating a wireguard connection between my home and colo instead. None of these keys/IP addresses are
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This is based on a series of tweets which I now want to place into blog post. When I go searching for something I’ve done before, I usually check my blog first. dma is “is a small Mail Transport Agent (MTA), designed for home and office use. It accepts mails from locally installed Mail User Agents (MUA) and delivers the mails either locally or to a remote destination. Remote delivery includes several features
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Here I am, sitting on a beach, writing a blog post, and sipping a cool adult beverage. Reading email. I see this: I quickly ssh into the host to check zpool status: Lines 15-17 are relevant. There was a resilver event, which completed at 08:49:48 The vdev state changed event occurred at 08:49:34 That all seems to tie in, time-wise. More info than you want This displays vdev guids: Line 11 shows the
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When updating to FreeBSD 13.1, I started getting these messages from sysutils/logcheck: egrep: trailing backslash (\) This post will document how I tracked down the problem. It is occurring on several hosts. In this post: FreeBSD 13.1 logcheck-1.3.24 Other similar issues I suspect the issue arises because of the change from egrep 2.5.1 under FreeBSD 12.3 to egrep 2.6.0 under FreeBSD 13.1. After the upgrade, I also encountered some egrep: empty (sub)expression messages
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I forgot to enable compression on this FreshPorts node. I have no idea why/how. After doing this, I went to a directory with a lot of space and copied stuff around. [aws-1 dan /jails/ingress01/var/db/freshports/message-queues/archive] % sudo mv 2021_03.tar.gz 2021_03.tar.gz.tmp 21:01:28 [aws-1 dan /jails/ingress01/var/db/freshports/message-queues/archive] % sudo mv 2021_03.tar.gz.tmp 2021_03.tar.gz 21:01:38 That will free up *some* space. But really, most of this zpool really needs to have zfs send | zfs recv done on each
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In this post, I will talk about how I modified my pkg configuration so I don’t have to modify it after upgrading a host/jail from one version of FreeBSD to another. You might say that you don’t have to do that. Perhaps you have a different configuration and aren’t doing what I’m doing. HEADS UP: I hit a problem with this approach when updating a jail using mkjail: see https://github.com/mkjail/mkjail/issues/30 In this post:
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Today I encountered this. [r720-01 dan ~] % sudo freebsd-update fetch install 14:39:01 Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors… 2 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 13.0-RELEASE from update1.freebsd.org… done. Fetching metadata index… done. The update metadata is correctly signed, but failed an integrity check. Cowardly refusing to proceed any further. I confirmed it was just the fetch portion. [r720-01 dan ~] % sudo freebsd-update fetch 14:42:08 Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors… 2 mirrors found. Fetching
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I bought a house. Yesterday was the settlement. I gave away some money, got a deed, and now I have a mortgage. Last night was an empty house party for a small group of friends and new neighbors. This morning I had a walk through the house with a finishing carpenter who is now retired. He was helpful in my learning about broken window mechanisms, door repair, ceiling patching, providing contacts for a
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