I was just refreshing my knowledge about filesystems… In FreeBSD it is definately easier to investigate fs behavior. You can just do a hexdump of a directory. In Solaris and Linux this does not work. Hexdump of zfs directory is not very interesting….
I really like it. It’s a pure magic… It’s pkgng. So, my task is to deploy about 20-30 servers (jails) for practical courses in PostgreSQL. So, every student will have its own unique DBMS to crack and crash. Two years ago I said students to do:
# cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server/ && make install
So, for half a lesson we monitored building
I’ve just installed redmine 1.3.2 on FreeBSD server and met several inconviniences.
# gem install rake -v=1.1.0
So, sometimes I have to type some text in French. And I dislike AZERTY layout, it’s too unfamiliar. So, what should I do? Right, to use altgr-intl US layout. To do this you just need to set XKB Variant to “altgr-intl” (something like this in hal policy file – /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-input.fdi on my FreeBSD system):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
One thing I hate in FreeBSD – is the speed of maintainence operations. To install (or upgrade) one port you have to wait half an hour… To update system with custom kernel/userland parameters, you should wait several hours… Then you call mergemaster…
Today I got a ton of messages DBI connect(‘dbname=xxx;host=yyy’,’username’,…) failed: server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably means the server terminated abnormally before or while processing the request. at….from our network statis…
There is one fundamental flaw in raidz ZFS pools: you can’t add devices to raidz (as opposed to usual raid5). So, could we do anything to expand our pool without full rebuilding? Yes, if we are ready to sacrifice one more disk.
From zpool man page:
A pool can have any number of virtual devices at the top of the
Changing user password in script on FreeBSD host turned out to be very simpe. Use “pw” for this purpose:
echo “user_password” | pw usermod -V /jails/myjail/etc -h 0 username
It seems I’ve found one interesting bug in FreeBSD boot0. The long story is the following. We deploy new systems on IBM blade servers. After some local fixes made by Oleg we made FreeBSD gmultipath work with our EMC Clarion storage. However, we observe…
It seems I’ve found one interesting bug in FreeBSD boot0. The long story is the following. We deploy new systems on IBM blade servers. After some local fixes made by Oleg we made FreeBSD gmultipath work with our EMC Clarion storage. However, we observe…
I’ve just found out, that java plugin is working on FreeBSD with Firefox 3.6 and OpenJDK (openjdk6-b21_3). You just need to compile openjdk port with WEB option and later doln -s /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/I can’t d…
I’ve just found out, that java plugin is working on FreeBSD with Firefox 3.6 and OpenJDK (openjdk6-b21_3). You just need to compile openjdk port with WEB option and later doln -s /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/I can’t d…
I spent weekend updating my desktop system. I’ve built 8.2, updated Xorg, KDE and different trifles. Finally I reinstalled autoconf,automake,libltdl,libtool, because portmaster couldn’t update them (ports moved). Periodically I had to kill grep during …
I spent weekend updating my desktop system. I’ve built 8.2, updated Xorg, KDE and different trifles. Finally I reinstalled autoconf,automake,libltdl,libtool, because portmaster couldn’t update them (ports moved). Periodically I had to kill grep during …
Finally one irritating wine bug was fixed. Now I’ve just updated my wine to 1.3.3 (I had this in my port tree) with applied suggested patch. Some windows applications still don’t work on my desktop (FreeBSD 8.1, xf86-video-ati-6.13.2, wine-1.3.3). How…
Finally one irritating wine bug was fixed. Now I’ve just updated my wine to 1.3.3 (I had this in my port tree) with applied suggested patch. Some windows applications still don’t work on my desktop (FreeBSD 8.1, xf86-video-ati-6.13.2, wine-1.3.3). How…
Now I’m looking something to replace VMware ESXi… So far I looked at XCP (xen cloud platform). It has issues running OpenIndiana, so it was not a best choice for me. Then I looked at OpenNode. But satisfactory WebUI was available only for latest beta…
Now I’m looking something to replace VMware ESXi… So far I looked at XCP (xen cloud platform). It has issues running OpenIndiana, so it was not a best choice for me. Then I looked at OpenNode. But satisfactory WebUI was available only for latest beta…
I’ve just managed to create initial prototype of repmgr port for FreeBSD. Port compiles, but repmgrd dumps core for unknown reason… Need to investigate. Shell archive of the port is provided.Updated: repmgrd works fine with included patch.# This is a…
I’ve just managed to create initial prototype of repmgr port for FreeBSD. Port compiles, but repmgrd dumps core for unknown reason… Need to investigate. Shell archive of the port is provided.
Updated: repmgrd works fine with included patch.
# This is a shell archive. Save it in a file, remove anything before
# this line, and then unpack it by