Why does net/mosquitto not save the pid on system restart?

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I’m encountering this issue with net/mosquitto on FreeBSD. [empty dan ~] % grep mosquitto /etc/rc.conf mosquitto_enable=”YES” mosquitto_user=”mosquitto” mosquitto_pidfile=”/var/run/mosquitto/mosquitto.pid” [empty dan ~] % sudo service mosquitto status mosquitto is not running. [empty dan ~] % cat /var/run/mosquitto/mosquitto.pid cat: /var/run/mosquitto/mosquitto.pid: No such file or directory [empty dan ~] % ps auwwx | grep mosq mosquitto 8964 0.0 0.0 39944 20464 – SsJ 18:08 0:00.69 /usr/local/sbin/mosquitto -c /usr/local/etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf -d dan 92313 0.0 0.0 12840 2328 1 […]

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How to limit a jail

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After encountering a rare instance where processing a FreeBSD commit caused FreshPorts to run low on resources, I want to investigate how limiting a jail might help this situation. I searched for ‘jail limit’ – found sentencing guidelines. I searched for ‘jail limit freebsd’ and found a FreeBSD Forums referring me to rctl(8), which I recognize from my $DAYJOB. I’ve just rebooted my host to add this to /boot/loader.conf: Then I started referring

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knew

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This host has gone to a new home (2024-03-30). The 5TB drives are still around, and are for sale. I should list those on eBay. For future reference, this is the knew server … oh wait, I think it’s this server which is was mounted in the 4U chassis mentioned in this post. It runs a few jails, including Bacula regression testing services. It is now mounted in a SuperChassis 846E16-R1200B This is

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slocum

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For my own records, I wiped the drives on 2024-01-03. On 2024-01-06, a chap from NY drove down to buy it off me. Thanks, and safe travels to a good server. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. FYI, this server is named after Joshua Slocum, who was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world. This server was upgraded on Feb 2 2019. Only the storage persisted.

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using syncoid to backup ZFS snapshots – home assistant

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Copies of data are good. Especially if on a different host. zfs snapshots combined with zfs send | zfs recv make replication of zfs file systems especially easy. I am already using sanoid to manage zfs snapshots. Now I’m going to use syncoid to transfer those snapshots to another host. Both sanoid and syncoid are provided by the sanoid package on FreeBSD. I’m sure any other packaging system does similar. In this post:

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openvpn: error=CRL has expired

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After the former FreshPorts server was retired, its OpenVPN credential were revoked. I maintain those certificates via ssl-admin. I uploaded the new CRL into the System | Certificate Manager | Certificate Revocation page in pfSense. Today, I was seeing strange errors in Nagios, and figured someone wasn’t connected to the VPN. Checking OpenVPN client logs, I found nothing. On the OpenVPN server, I found this message: Oct 23 22:14:23 openvpn 11134 203.0.113.144:20690 VERIFY

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Upgrading an NVMe zpool from 222G to 1TB drives

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The FreshPorts dev, test, and stage websites are hosted on a server in my basement. Each instance consists of two jails: an ingress node – for pulling in new commits (and other data) into the database. a webserver node – for displaying the web pages. The new drives: Sometimes the zpool gets too close to full. I tweeted about one incident on March 2021. I held hope that some spare SSDs might be

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Where’s my drives?

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This is just rough notes for myself. List the gpart output for each drive in my system. for drive in $(sysctl -n kern.disks) do gpart show $drive done gpart: No such geom: da11. => 40 9767541088 da10 GPT (4.5T) 40 8392664 – free – (4.0G) 8392704 9758048256 3 freebsd-zfs (4.5T) 9766440960 1100168 – free – (537M) => 40 976773088 da9 GPT (466G) 40 2008 – free – (1.0M) 2048 838860800 1 freebsd-zfs (400G)

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da12 in my FreeBSD zfs array disappeared at :02 and came back at :04

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This post is based on a tweet and was created after a followup incident occurred today. The post was created to consolidate the information into a blog post so I could easily find it later. Details about this host (disks, zpool, gpart, etc) are in this post. On March 15 2022, I noticed these messages in /var/log/messages: The zpool array was degraded. I don’t have a record of that message. The tweet also

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