It was May 2021 when I tweeted about monitoring FreeBSD jails which had jail IP addresses only in the 127.0.0.0/8 range. Yesterday, nearly 6 months later, I did the first test of this. This came up because I’m getting a new FreshPorts node ready. I’ve created a file in the jail to be run from the host. That script runs in the jail but it initiated by a process on the host. In […]
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Sometimes I mess up. Then I have to clean up and redo. These help me do that. This deletes FullAutoNoNextPool-12954 to FullAutoNoNextPool-12958. This creates FullAutoNoNextPool-12954 to FullAutoNoNextPool-12958.
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This is x8dtu (named after the SuperMicro motherboard). This is the old but new FreshPorts server, which currently running on AWS, not this host. The previous post for this is still available In short: FreeBSD 13.0 booting off a mirrored pair of zfsroot SSDs 4.5TB of mirrored ZFS 196612 MB of RAM (yeah, that’s 196GB of RAM) SuperMicro X8DTU motherboard Intel Xeon E5620 @ 2.40GHz (two of those, giving 16 CPUs) NOTE: this
This started off as a Twitter thread earlier this morning. databases/mysql57-client has an optional dependency on security/cyrus-sasl2 which defaults to on. Let’s try turning that off and see if it also removes openldap-client from the dependency list. Why? I install net-mgmt/nagios-plugins in just above every jail and host. Even hosts which don’t use MySQL. I use poudriere to build all my own packages. I added this entry: # Trying to avoid pulling in
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Yes, this is blatant bragging. But realistically, this is more a function of my ISP (Verizon FiOS) and my electricity supplier (PECO) than my abilities. To be fair, it is more contingent upon no power failures than anything else. I do have a UPS, but that’s only good for about 10-20 minutes. For August 2021, my home network had 100% uptime, according to RIPE. I’ve been hosting this device since 2013-05-29 (just over
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Last last night, after renaming some buildlists, which were actually setnames, for poudriere, I realized that files in /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d also needed to be renamed. In this post: poudriere 3.3.7 nginx 1.20.1_2,2 Both running on FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p4 These are my renamed files: [dan@pkg01:/usr/local/etc/poudriere.d]: $ ls *primary* primary-make.conf primary-poudriere.conf primaryi386-make.conf primaryi386-poudriere.conf The output of svn status illustrates the changes I made: [dan@pkg01:/usr/local/etc/poudriere.d]: $ svn st D master-list-i386-make.conf > moved to primaryi386-make.conf D master-list-i386-poudriere.conf > moved
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I like readability. I like it in variable names. I prefer something descriptive and easy to ready. In in this post: FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p4 poudriere 3.3.7 I recently started getting messages like this from my daily poudiere build: I could just rename the sets, everything would be rebuilt, but then clients would be stuck pointing at the old no-longer built trees. To fix this easily, I will use symlinks. This is what clients use
net/mosquitto is an open source (BSD licensed) message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol. I use it for event notification. Related posts: mosquitto: upgrade from 1.x to 2.x requires configuration changes to keep working Using mtqq to create a notification network: mosquitto, mqttwarn, hare, and hared Installing Owntracks recorder on FreeBSD In this post: FreeBSD 13 mosquitto 2.0.10 My configuration Here is what I have in my /etc/rc.conf related to
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This was written a few weeks ago and I just noticed today that it had not been published. Following on from I bought a new nvme drive – or did I?, I ran stressdisk on it. [dvl@test ~]$ sudo gpart add -a 4k -t freebsd-zfs nvd0 nvd0p1 added [dvl@test ~]$ gpart show nvd0 => 34 500118125 nvd0 GPT (238G) 34 6 – free – (3.0K) 40 500118112 1 freebsd-zfs (238G) 500118152 7 –
To be fair, the name servers weren’t offline, just the two zone files I amended. The effect: none of my services at home were available to anything at home. The other day, I was working on some procedures for adding a jail to a host and then a jail within that jail. I wanted to document the procedure to make it easier to implement when the time comes. The first step, create the
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