I wrote this back in July 2013, but never published it. Might as well share it now. Lately, I’ve been moving away from tracking FreeeBSD STABLE and more towards using freebsd-update(8). Today, I’ll be setting up a jail, using ezjail and freebsd-update. ############## NOTE: Please read the comments before you read the article. ############## Installing […]
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This is an old post I wrote, but never published, back in 2010. I’ve started using Munin for some statistical monitoring. Using the hddtemp_smartctl plugin, I was getting some permission errors. After printing the output of the command, I noticed these in the logs: 2010/03/11-18:30:05 [60845] [ERROR] Command /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -A /dev/ad8 on drive ad8 failed:
Last night I upgraded the main jail server in my lab from FreeBSD 9.3 to FreeBSD 10.1. I just started using the term, home lab, after discovering http://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/. That server contains, amongst other things, these jails: my development environment for http://dev.freshports.org/ my in house webserver, which hosts the above mentioned website my svn repo an
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Much like the system/bootenv/default/usr does not contain /usr issue I recently wrote about, I found the same issue with system/bootenv/default/var For this post, I have booted my FreeBSD 9.3 system from mfsBSD thumb drive. I will import the pool, but not mount it. # zpool import -N system I mounted the filesystem in question, and
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Today I sat down to install some packages on a server I just configured for Ansible and iocage. I failed. My poudriere host runs FreeBSD 9.3 and can build for older version of FreeBSD but not newer versions. Solution: upgrade that host. I will be using beadm to allow me to keep my existing 9.3
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This post has been replaced by a newer one. For reference, the previous post on this server is still available. This system was recently converted to a beadm layout. For future reference, this is the slocum server, which I use for various jails and services. The filesystems, well, some of them: And dmesg:
All of my previous jail hosts have used ezjail. I have recently played with both bsdploy and iocage. The primary purpose of this post is showing you how to install
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I’ve been a contributor to the Bacula project since 2004 (about 10 years). My contributions have mostly in the PostgreSQL backend, regression testing, maintainer of the FreeBSD ports, and how-to guides and blog entries. My current tape library is a donated SDLT 220 unit and I am looking to upgrade it. Can I have your
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In this post, I am using FreeBSD 9.3 but what I do here should have wide application, especially the errors I encounter. I believe in backups. Not just rsync, but multiple copies and in multiple places. RAID is not a backup. rsync is not a backup. The goal of this post is to send a
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freebsd-update is a great tool. It reduces my workload. It’s hard to use it wrong, but I have managed to do so. So have other people. Yesterday, three of us encountered the same issue. We did it wrong. We didn’t do it wrong yesterday. We did it wrong months ago, and now it’s come back
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