Dan Langille's Other Diary – Page 18 – He has another, more popular, diary. This one is more general.

Labelling tapes in bulk – Bacula

Leave a Comment / Bacula / By Dan Langille / March 8, 2021

This is not a significant post. It is for the record. I received 20 new LTO4 tapes recently. I attached the external labels to them after using https://kelvin.nu/barcode *label barcodes pool=Scratch storage=bacula-sd-02 drive=0 slot=1-7,11-15,17-23,39,47 Connecting to Storage daemon bacula-sd-02 at bacula-sd-02.int.unixathome.org:9103 … 3306 Issuing autochanger “slots” command. Device “bacula-sd-02” has 47 slots. Connecting to Storage […]

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Irssi: Unknown command: keepnick

Leave a Comment / irssi / By Dan Langille / March 6, 2021

I use irssi and a script keepnick for grabbing my nick when it becomes available. From time to time, I get this message: Irssi: Unknown command: keepnick How do I fix this? It has happened before. I did not blog it. Ouch. I could have this solved by now if I had. My solution, this

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Converting an iocage jail to a vanilla jail

3 Comments / iocage, Jails, py-iocage / By Dan Langille / February 28, 2021

Tonight I got blocked by iocage and handling a ZFS filesystem from within an iocage jail. These are the steps I followed to convert that jail from iocage to a vanilla jail. The variable To make this solution easier to use, at least for me, on future jail migrations, I have these variables: For example,

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Preventing a given package from being installed

Leave a Comment / FreshPorts, pkg / By Dan Langille / February 16, 2021

I have a few development jails dedicated to my work on FreshPorts. It’s been a hobby of mine since the late 1990s. The code I create gets packaged, ready to deploy onto the test, stage, and production hosts. What I absolutely do not want to happen, and it’s happened recently, is for those packages to

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No IPv6 routes on AWS EC2 FreeBSD 12.2 instance

Leave a Comment / AWS / By Dan Langille / December 27, 2020

I’m trying and failing to get IPv6 routing working on my AWS EC2 FreeBSD 12.2 instance. My current status: The host has an IPv6 address rtsol is running ping6 google.ca gives ping6: UDP connect: No route to host no issues with IP4 traffic In this post, I will work through Migrating to IPv6 with the

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Today I faced the first consequences of my TXT & Let’s Encrypt strict policy

Leave a Comment / DNS, Let's Encrypt, named, Open Source, Security / By Dan Langille / December 24, 2020

Today I faced the first implications of deciding to tightly restrict the use of nsupdate keys for modifying TXT records for dns-01 challenges with Let’s Encrypt. Context This section should be on news.freshports.org and you can skip it to get to the real stuff. Today I’m working on a mostly automated FreshPorts node deployment. A

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Creating a very specific TXT only nsupdate connection for Let’s Encrypt

Leave a Comment / DNS, Let's Encrypt, named, Security / By Dan Langille / December 19, 2020

In the interests of maintaining Michael W Lucas in the lifestyle to which he has become accustomed, I am creating this blog post. Although Mr Lucas was the first to post, he is not solely to blame for my burdensome workload. Jan-Piet Mens and Evan Hunt also have much to answer for. Their misdeeds include

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writing random data via geli

Leave a Comment / Disks / By Dan Langille / December 14, 2020

You might recall that suspect drive from the zpool replace on the weekend. Thomas Hurst suggested: Might be worth overwriting the drive, try to encourage it to actually reallocate the sectors now the data on them is no longer needed. I, being one to take advice from people on the internet, and Michael W Lucas,

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The replacement – a followup

Leave a Comment / FreeBSD, ZFS / By Dan Langille / December 13, 2020

Yesterday, I started a zpool replace. It finished overnight, and dropped the suspect drive out of the vdev. The resilver finished in the middle of the night: As you can see, da22p1 has taken the place of da17p1. The resilver took As the new drive is being resilvered, I started looking at metrics. Here is

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Replacing a failing drive in a ZFS zpool

Leave a Comment / Disks, hardware, ZFS / By Dan Langille / December 12, 2020

In this post I will replace a working, but suspect, drive with another drive. No down time. The server is knew. In this post: FreeBSD 12.2 ZFS TOSHIBA MD04ACA500 5TB drive – the suspect drive: da17 TOSHIBA HDWE150 5TB drive – the replacement: da22 None of these drives are under warranty What drives are in

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