FreshPorts runs on a FreeBSD server which hosts multiple jails. Two of these jails run PostgreSQL server. When upgrading from one version of PostgreSQL to another, we run pg_dump in the new jail, and load the backup into that database server. I’m writing this blog post to keep track of this procedure so I do […]
Unofficial theme: conventions. There’s lots of options this year; you should go. If you are reading this, you’re the right demographic to enjoy one. Upgrading FreeBSD from 11.3 to 12.1. VVVVVV seems to work fine on OpenBSD (6.6-current #595). ReDoomEd – works on BSD. (via) BSDCan 2020 is June 3-6 in Ottawa, and the Call for …
Sometimes you get 2 nice tips: I like seeing this NetBSD->FreeBSD->DragonFly cross pollination in this commit, and also now I know I can fsck a FAT volume on BSD.
3rd bonus: that last sentence sounds terribly rude.
Today I found this annoying situation on FreeBSD 12.1 in a FreeBSD 12.0 jail (neither of which are directly relevant to the problem at hand). [dan@serpico:~] $ sudo pkg audit -F vulnxml file up-to-date pkg: vulnxml parsing error: no element found pkg: cannot process vulnxml After a bit if thinking, I figured the vulnxml file […]
No theme evolved, but lots more links this week. Nextcloud 17 on FreeBSD 12.1. BSD user groups in Italy. (via) Announcing the pkgsrc-2019Q4 release. (via) HEADS UP: Wayland and WebRTC enabled for NetBSD 9/Linux. (pkgsrc, via) Unlock Your UNIX Laptop with Your Phone. I normally pull vermaden items directly from RSS, but the Lobste.rs comments …
It was an abnormally quiet week – probably because of the Christmas holiday, or maybe because I cleared my BSD link backlog last week. perl updated to 5.30.1. (OpenBSD) a glimpse into 2020. Do you see what I see? Theo De Raadt Interview between Ottawa 2019 Hackathon and BSDCAN 2019. How job control made the …
Quiet week, so catch up on your reading here. putting stuff in a proliant dl325. Not that BSD-specific but still. WireGuard OpenBSD Router. (via) Elasticsearch on MidnightBSD. How Unix Works: Become a Better Software Engineer. Valid, though the writing may annoy you, not just because it misses BSD history completely. (via) OpenBSD system-call-origin verification. (via) …
I managed to miss the Thursday update to BSDNow (#329) – Michael W. Lucas is interviewed mostly about his unnatural love of gelato BSD books , and he’s always an entertaining talker. NomadBSD – Installation and First Impressions. (via) Building Ansible Training Environment on FreeBSD. (via) This is another reason to go to BUG meetings. …
Lots of variety this week. NetBSD Advent Calendar 2019. (via) ARM64 and BSD discussion. Notqmail, the presentation topic for the January NYCBUG meeting and maybe for SEMIBUG at some point too. HAMBSD, presented at NorthernRST. (via) BSD-Licensed Combinatorics library/utility. This is neat. “The Microsoft LSG (former Open Source Technology Center) FreeBSD Team is pleased to …
Accidental theme: BUGs BUGs BUGs and also happy birthday me! It’s a bit brief cause like usual I am working extra. NetBSD 9.0RC1 is out. Next ChiBUG meeting: December 10th. RSVP on the list if you are attending. Next Dusseldorf BUG meeting: also December 10th. Next NYCBUG meeting: January 8th. ZFS sync/async + ZIL/SLOG, explained. …
End of year events are starting to get scheduled; watch for one near you. Holiday Hardware Swap plus more at NYCBUG this Wednesday. MeatBSD reservations are due today. If you will be near SEMIBUG’s Dec 17th event, respond now. FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report for 2019Q3. Valuable News – 2019/11/25. OPNsense 19.7.7 released. p2k19 Hackathon Report: …
Today I found out about a vuln in net/py-urllib3. Nagios told me: Checking for security vulnerabilities in base (userland & kernel): Host system: Database fetched: Tue Nov 26 18:23:32 UTC 2019 py36-urllib3-1.22,1 I logged into that host and ran a pkg upgrade py36-urllib3. What other hosts have that installed? There. That’s the hosts I have […]
Today this Nagios alert showed up: I admit it. I have not patched my micro code before. I’m doing it only because it turned up in Nagios. Browsing to that URL, I found “Starting with version 1.26, the devcpu-data port/package includes updates and mitigations for the following technical and security advisories (depending on CPU model).”. […]
For future reference, this is the knew server … oh wait, I think it’s this server which is was mounted in the 4U chassis mentioned in this post. It runs a few jails, including Bacula regression testing services. It is now mounted in a SuperChassis 846E16-R1200B This recent post outlines the modifications so it boots […]
I rebooted knew yesterday for upgrades. When it came back, the main storage zpool was degraded: Is the drive alive? The drive is not listed at all in /var/run/dmesg.boot. I keep a list of the expected drives in /etc/periodic.conf, for use by a Nagios check: [dan@knew:~] $ /usr/sbin/sysrc -nf /etc/periodic.conf daily_status_smart_devices /dev/da22 /dev/da21 /dev/da20 /dev/da19 […]
When the time comes to replace a drive, it is very nice to know which drives is missing. I created this drive map to help me figure out which drive disappeared. I created this drive-bay map using a combination of: zpool status sesutil map lsblk camcontrol /var/run/dmesg.boot I have not included /var/run/dmesg.boot here. If you […]
Read that last link, if only to make your convention-going safer in the future. Maintaining port modifications in FreeBSD. (via) The fading out of multi-‘architecture’ Unix environments. Followup: In the old days, we didn’t use multiple Unixes by choice (mostly). Valuable News – 2019/11/18. OpenBSD on SPARC64 (6.0 to 6.5). And the followup Running OpenBSD …