Updating firmware etc on a Dell R720

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See also: Updating firmware etc on a Dell R730 I started writing this blog about a month ago. Last night, I did the firmware upgrade completely forgetting I had this draft post in my blog. Instead of reading this, I wound up doing something very similar, and pretty much lived tweeted it. After upgrading the IDRAC to the latest, I then went into the LifeCycle Controller and upgraded nearly all the things. However, […]

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scripts for monitoring vulns in FreeBSD jails

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I have scripts for monitoring vulns in FreeBSD jails. They use third-party scripts. All I wrote was the Nagios part of the solution. I was preparing slides for my Why I prefer thick jails over thin jails talk at EuroBSDCon 2019. There is still time to register and attend. I was explaining my scripts and was providing links to gist.github.com … I realized I should create a repo: https://github.com/dlangille/freebsd-nagios-jail These scripts do the

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poudriere hooks

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zi0r suggested I use hooks to accomplish my patches-outside-distfiles question. In this post: FreeBSD 12.0 poudriere 3.3.2 I started reading the documentation and played with the supplied sample files in /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/hooks. For background, see FreeBSD custom port patches when using poudriere. Eventually I came up with this solution: mkdir during the start phase mount during the mount phase I put stuff into a gist first, then created this post. The hook This is

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3Ware device degraded

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On supernews a drive acted up over night. The main purpose of this post is for me to record the information. You might not find much useful here. The host is running FreeBSD 12 and is a FreshPorts development box. I saw this error in the logs: smart emailed me because I set that up some time ago. The email looked like this: This message was generated by the smartd daemon running on:

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iocage

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I was asked why I was exasperated with iocage: This is the list of issues where I found my name. A given issue may be listed multiple times. Oct 2017 – iocage upgrade is looping: https://github.com/iocage/iocage/issues/399 Jun 2018 – cannot run ‘iocage start’ from my home dir: https://github.com/iocage/iocage/issues/567 Aug 2018 – entries in fstab disappear: https://github.com/iocage/iocage/issues/595 Dec 2018 – Cannot install 12.0 in a jail: https://github.com/iocage/iocage/issues/715 Jan 2019 – iocages puts exec files

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Installing Owntracks recorder on FreeBSD

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I went and did a thing. I ported OwnTrack Recorder to FreeBSD. In this post: FreeBSD 12 owntracks/recoder 0.8.4 I refer to owntracks/recorder as ot-recorder. The FreeBSD service is known as otrecorder On FreeBSD, ot-recorder runs as the ot-recorder user, created by the package. I did not want it running as root. ot-recorder installs mosquitto by default, because it needs it’s libraries. That is also the reason why it installs curl. I chose

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upgrading to LibreNMS 1.53.1

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When upgrading to LibreNMS 1.53.1, your website will not load. You’ll see a message saying check the logs. There will be nothing useful in the logs. I checked. Nothing. This is how I fixed the loading issue. In this post: FreeBSD 12.0 LibreNMS 1.51 running in a jail Upgrading to 1.53.1 First attempts Running as www OK, let’s run that as www. Eh? What? References Searching around, I found nothing useful. I found

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Replacing both drives in a zpool mirror

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As previously mentioned, zuul has new drives. It is now time to replace the existing drives with the new drives. I will do this one at a time. Replace. Wait for resilver. At no time will the mirror be degraded (as would be the case if we removed a drive and mirrored). In this approach, we will mirror one of the drives to a new drive, and zfs will automatically remove the old

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new drives for zuul

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I have two new drives for zuul. I’ll start adding them into the zpool soon. For now, here is the smarctl output for the new drives. I’ll start some tests on them soon. By new, I mean new to this host. The drives have 17,000 hours on them. [dan@zuul:~] $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/ada2 smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p7 amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START

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Adding new DNS zones when using nsupdate & bind

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Back in the good old days, I managed my DNS zones files by checking them into the repo, and then running svn up on the name servers. When I started using Let’s Encrypt, I stopped doing that because of the use of nsupdate. This post outlines how I added two new zones to my nameservers: vbsdcon.org vbsdcon.com The zone files Here is the zone I created. $ cat vbsdcon.org.db vbsdcon.org. 3600 IN SOA

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