ntp wasn’t running but Nagios didn’t notice

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Earlier today, I noticed the following output from a Bacula job: 24-Sep 14:14 bacula-dir JobId 38548: Start Backup JobId 38548, Job=latens_home.2010-09-24_14.12.38_31 24-Sep 14:14 bacula-dir JobId 38548: Using Device “MegaFile-latens” 24-Sep 14:09 latens-fd JobId 38548: DIR and FD clocks differ by -307 seconds, FD automatically compensating. That’s 5 minutes. It shouldn’t be varying by that much. […]

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Rebate!

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Back in Feburary, I ordered a 720W PSU for $150. There was a $60 rebate with it. When the PSU arrived, I promptly filled out the form and put it in an envelope for mailing. Except, I didn’t mail it. I found that envelope a few weeks ago. What the hell. I mailed it. It

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Sending out a URL for password reset

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Quite some time ago, FreshPorts and The FreeBSD Diary both moved from clear text passwords to password hashes. As such, you are no longer able to recover your password. You had to email me. This is extra work for everyone. Let us automate this. The first, step, is a table: create table user_password_reset( user_id int

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3Ware RAID issues resolved

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It seems the RAID issues mentioned in recent posts have been resolved. On Friday, I upgraded the firmware on the controller and rebooted. 5 days later, the status is still OK: $ sudo /usr/local/sbin/tw_cli info c0 u0 Password: Unit UnitType Status %RCmpl %V/I/M Port Stripe Size(GB) ———————————————————————— u0 RAID-10 OK – – – 64K 195.548

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More RAID oddness

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After running the 3Ware diagnostic script, the status of the array went to OK. A short time later, it reverted to this $ sudo /usr/local/sbin/tw_cli info c0 u0 Unit UnitType Status %RCmpl %V/I/M Port Stripe Size(GB) ———————————————————————— u0 RAID-0 OK – – – 64K 195.548 u0-0 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN – – p0 – 104.314 u0/v0 Volume

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RAID issues

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I discovered this tonight. I don’t know how long this has been going on. $ sudo tw_cli info c0 Unit UnitType Status %RCmpl %V/I/M Stripe Size(GB) Cache AVrfy —————————————————————————— u0 RAID-10 OK – – 64K 195.548 ON OFF u1 SPARE OK – – – 69.2404 – OFF u2 SPARE OK – – – 69.2404 –

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Oops

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— /etc/master.passwd 2010-03-08 16:00:49.000000000 +0000 +++ ./etc/master.passwd 2010-08-23 01:04:12.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -# $FreeBSD: src/etc/master.passwd,v 1.40 2005/06/06 20:19:56 brooks Exp $ +# $FreeBSD: src/etc/master.passwd,v 1.40.22.1 2009/08/03 08:13:06 kensmith Exp $ # -root:*:0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh +root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh toor:*:0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root: daemon:*:1:1::0:0:Owner of many system processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin operator:*:2:5::0:0:System &:/:/usr/sbin/nologin @@ -21,23 +21,3 @@ pop:*:68:6::0:0:Post Office Owner:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin www:*:80:80::0:0:World Wide

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