jail: fetch: transfer timed out / protocol not supported

After recent efforts to get old jails running on a new server, I tried to upgrade some ports today. I failed. portupgrade was erroring out and reporting: protocol not supported A simple fetch http://www.google.com/ was giving me fetch: transfer timed out I tried portaudit -Fa. Nothing. fetch: transfer timed out I checked ifconfig on the jail host. There is was. I’ll show only a small part of the ifconfig output: $ ifconfig inet […]

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jail: execv: /bin/sh: No such file or directory

Recently, I was moving some jails from one server to another. First, I created the jail using the -x switch, which indicates the jail already exists, don’t create it, just add entries for it: # ezjail-admin create -f bacula -x mysql41.example.org 10.35.0.100 Warning: Some services already seem to be listening on IP 10.35.0.100 This may cause some confusion, here they are: root ntpd 63822 25 udp4 10.35.0.100:123 *:* Warning: Some services already seem

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Upgrading to Bacula database version 14

After running the script which upgrades your Bacula database to version 14, there are a couple of fix-ups you may wish to run: alter table restoreobject owner to bacula; grant all on restoreobject_restoreobjectid_seq to bacula; grant all on restoreobject to bacula; You may or may not have to do this, depending on how you ran the upgrade script. Examine the following command output for your database: bacula=# \dt restoreobject List of relations Schema

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Pentabarf authentication issues

I encountered this situation recently. I had consolidated two logins. One was for 2012, the other for 2011. It’s better to reuse your login from previous years instead of creating a new one each year. Why? It lets the program committee see what you’ve submitted in previous years. They can see your previous acceptances/rejections. That is very useful, both in a negative and a positive fashion. The error upon login was: You are

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Pentabarf travel

Here is the start of a query for pulling out travel requirements for conference attendees. SELECT P.last_name, P.first_name, CPT.arrival_from, CPT.arrival_to, CPT.need_accommodation FROM conference_person_travel CPT, conference_person CP, conference C, person P WHERE CPT.need_accommodation AND CPT.conference_person_id = CP.conference_person_id AND P.person_id = CP.person_id AND CP.conference_id = C.conference_id AND C.acronym = ‘BSDCan2012’

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memtestosx

I just bought and downloaded memtestosx. Last login: Sun Jan 8 16:14:10 on ttys001 [dan@dent:~] $ /Volumes/memtest_422/memtest/memtest ; exit; Memtest version 4.22 (64-bit) Copyright (C) 2004 Charles Cazabon Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Tony Scaminaci (Macintosh port) Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 only NOTE: No command-line arguments have been specified Using defaults: Test all available memory, one test pass, no logfile Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74) running in multiuser mode Memory

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Pentabarf fix

After a very long effort, this is the solution: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION conflict.conflict_statistics(conference_id integer, OUT conflict_level text, OUT conflicts integer) RETURNS SETOF record LANGUAGE plpgsql AS $function$ #variable_conflict use_variable DECLARE conflict TEXT; conflict_rows INTEGER; BEGIN FOR conflict_level IN SELECT conflict_level.conflict_level FROM conflict.conflict_level WHERE conflict_level.conflict_level ‘silent’ ORDER BY rank LOOP conflicts = 0; FOR conflict IN SELECT conference_phase_conflict.conflict FROM conflict.conference_phase_conflict INNER JOIN conference ON ( conference.conference_id = conference_id AND conference.conference_phase = conference_phase_conflict.conference_phase )

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Such devious spam

Today I received this rather devious spam. Invoke education, children, libraries, and hope that someone will link to their site. I’m not sure *why* they want this particular site promoted. There’s not much useful information there. No attempt to sell anything. I’m confused. Perhaps this was legit. But then, if you search for certain phrases contained in this email, you’ll see other such posts. I’m certain it’s spam. By, the way, I’ve amended

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When is a cleaning tape needed?

As part of my magical Bacula website, I wanted to know when my tape drive required a cleaning tape. It appears that smartctl will reveal this information: [dan@kraken:/usr/home/dan] $ sudo /usr/local/sbin/in/smartctl -d scsi -x /dev/nsa0 Password: smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net Device: DEC TZ89 (C) DEC Version: 2561 Serial number: CXA02S1766 Device type: tape Local Time is: Tue Jun 21 00:22:26 2011

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