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Installing packages from a custom FreeBSD repository

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One of the great things about FreeBSD is the poudriere tool. With it, you can create your own set of customized packages for installation on your server. Today, I will be installing packages in a FreeBSD 9.2 jail. Although I am installing in a jail, the same steps apply to any FreeBSD 9.2 host. In this post, I will cover how to deliver the packages produced by poudriere. I have already written about […]

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Using poudriere to create a custom FreeBSD repository for package installation

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I just showed you how I installed ezjail 3.3 on FreeBSD 9.2 and how it uses ZFS for each jail. Today I’m writing about using poudriere to create custom packages for use by pkng. In this post, I will be creating packages on a FreeBSD 9.2 server. Those packages are for running Bacula on FreeBSD 9.2. To accomplish this, we will need: A list of ports to install for running Bacula. In poudriere

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Backup speed

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It’s little things like this which improve the copying of backups to tape. Speed. Each of those Volumes are 5GB in size. The tape drive takes about about 2-4 minutes per 5GB to write it to tape. Between the end of IncrAuto-4150 and the end of IncrAuto-1455, the tape drive wrote 20GB in about 9 minutes. That’s roughly 2GB/minute or about 37MB/s.

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Using the Compaq Storage Works MSL5026 Library

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I am fortunate to receive donations. In the early days, it was a 386 desktop. Later, it was SCSI drives. Recently, it’s been tape libraries. A Bacula user in Europe donated an Overland DLT-8000 tape library in 2012 and paid for shipping to me. At BSDCan 2013, I was fortunate to pick up an Compaq StorageWorks MSL5026 SDLT tape library and it has sat unused. It’s dead Jim A few weeks back, the

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Accessing FreeBSD Jails over OpenVPN

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With this new server, I am taking a new approach. Each jail will have at least three IP addresses: The public IP4 address, used by internet facing services (e.g. http or https) The public IPv6 address, similar to the above A VPN address, used for system administration and private services (e.g. nrpe) In this article, I will assume you are familiar with ezjail, FreeBSD jails, basic networking, OpenVPN, and ZFS. That is, this

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Ansible versus Salt

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Over the past few weeks, I worked with two different configuration tools: Salt and Ansible. I started working with Salt. I quickly created a setup for a Salt server and for a Salt minion. The modules I saw looked great. However, I had consistently had trouble converting from the documentation to a practical usage. The examples provided always seemed to be CLI. Taking that and converting it to a SLS file caused me

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Routing with jails

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Tonight I asked a question in the OpenVPN IRC channel on FreeNode. me: I’m getting ready to set up a new server, running an OpenVPN client. It will be running several virtual machines (FreeBSD Jails). Each VM will have both a public IP address and a non-routable IP address. I’m hoping to access all those VMs from within the VPN. Am I making sense with my objective here? reply: “clientlan” is (#1) for

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OpenVPN and dynamic DNS

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My laptop’s hostname is dent. I want my DNS records to point to that laptop whether I’m connected to my LAN directly (via WIFI or ethernet cable) or via OpenVPN (my VPN of choice). SIDE NOTE: You will see references to nsupdate -k below. Note that in recent versions of this program, the option you want has changed to nsupdate -y. You will find an example of the new format later in this

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mounting the FreshPorts chroot within a jail

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In my work on FreshPorts, I’ve learned more than the average non-committer about the FreeBSD ports tree and its oddities. Just about everything learns about a port it gets from ‘make -V’. Even this method can be fraught with difficulty. In an attempt to get the fairest information possible, FreshPorts uses a chroot solution, first proposed by Ryan Steinmetz . Previous posts about this particular solution can be found in the FreshPorts blog.

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bad ifconfig leads to no pings

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I had a Bacula job fail today: Is bacula-sd running on crey? Yes it is. Can I telnet to port 9103 on crey? Yes, I can: $ telnet 10.5.0.20 9103 Trying 10.5.0.20… Connected to crey.example.org. Escape character is ‘^]’. What about from the nyi-fd server? Can I telnet from there? $ telnet 10.5.0.20 9103 Trying 10.5.0.20… telnet: connect to address 10.5.0.20: Operation timed out telnet: Unable to connect to remote host I started

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