This morning I saw this weird popup / flag when I hovered over the Spam link on webpage. The text read: What is that? I had no idea, but it was persistent. Every time I hovered the mouse over the link, that popup appeared. It would not appear in screenshots, so I resorted to the […]
What’s this database connection in my Google / Calendar / Desktop? Read More »
My Unifi US-16-XG switch was offline. It was still functioning correctly, but it was not in contact with the Controller. I wasn’t sure how to fix this, but this blog post shows what I now think should always work. It consists of two steps: Get the switch talking to the Controller Make the above change
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FreshPorts recently moved to an IPv6-capable server but until today, that capability has not been utilized. There were a number of things I had to configure, but this will not necessarily be an exhaustive list for you to follow. Some steps might be missing, and it might not apply to your situation. All of this
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I have two Unifi WAPs at home. I’ve installed them at three other locations. They are a great product. One problem I had was getting the management interface set. By that, I mean the IP address of the unit. I wanted it to be in a specific range, and therefore it had to be in
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I’m writing this down so I can find it later. The management IP address on my Unifi US-16-XG is wrong. I’m going to change it via a combination of the controller and the CLI. Let’s hope this works. Hope? Why hope? Unifi switches are designed to be managed via the webgui (i.e. their controller). I’m
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Happy New Year. This morning I received an email at 4:50 AM local time telling me that my camera system had been offline for 10 minutes. Based on that, I tried to access my internal monitoring system from outside. Nothing. Later emails indicated other external systems had issues connecting to the internal network. As I
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In this post: Bacula 7.4 FreeBSD 11.1 py-iocage 0.9.9.2 I recently wrote about Converting a Dell R710 into a ZFS-based FreeBSD 11.1 tape library bacula-sd and then about getting the drives ready. That system, henceforth referred to as the r710 is now ready for the Bacula setup. Last night I created a jail and installed
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I’ve been given a Dell PowerEdge 710. I’ve installed two 30GB SSDs, installed FreeBSD 11 on them, and added four 500 GB SSDs. It will become a tape library server, replacing the R610 which will no longer be used. Some of the hardware came from the R610. The zpools: The filesystems: And dmesg:
I recently installed 6 SSDs into an R710. In this post, I will describe what I did to the empty SSDs before I started using them. short test I ran a short test on each one of the drives. I already had smartctl. $ sudo smartctl -t short /dev/da0 smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p1
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If you’ve read even a little of what I’ve written, the following points will not come as a surprise: I like FreeBSD I’m a fan of backups I use Bacula I like ZFS I have tape libraries In this post, I will cover all of the above and more. Photos will be included. New gear
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