ZFS has a the ability to share itself within a jail. That gives the jail some autonomy, and I like that. I’ve written briefly about that, specifically for iocage. More recently, I started using a zfs snapshot for caching clearing. The purpose of this post is to document the existing configuration of the production FreshPorts […]
Today was battery replacement day at my place. The UPS batteries were replaced without downtime. That doesn’t mean there wasn’t downtime. I am not documenting this in real-time. This is post-event analysis. First, I wanted to change the battery replacement date, so I ran acptest on the pfSense server, to which the UPS is connected […]
Check the BSDCan videos this week; there’s more than a day’s worth of material right there. BSDCan 2020 videos. (via) File handling in Unix: tips, traps and outright badness. Not only BSD. (via) My views on some conventions for Unix command line options, followed by Unix options conventions are just that, which makes them products …
There are known problems with vnet and firewalls. I’ve been plagued by such issues for months. In this case, my git jail, I’m giving up and moving away from vnet jails. This post documents how I did this. Get the IP address Make sure you know the existing IP address of that jail. It might […]
Fun variety this week. FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE Now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace. 2.11BSD Missing Patches. Ultra Hat Dimension – PlayOnBSD. Mostly linking because of the name. Valuable News – 2020/08/03. BSD Gaming is Improving – Proton on FreeBSD. (via) A BSD phone lives! Sorta. BSD Router Project 1.97. (via) FSF’s Free Software Gang almost included …
I noticed a problem with a newly-created freshports daemon script: starting it would sometime freeze the terminal session. The rc.d script The rc.d script was fairly straight forward: Nothing odd there, right? This first happened a week or so ago. I moved on it and decided to look into later. But wait, there’s more This […]
That last link is around the corner from me. Audio Subsystem on Single Board Computers. Finding file duplicates with fdupes on FreeBSD. nvi2 in FreeBSD ports. First screen shot of 2.11BSD as released. When Unix learned to reboot(2). Valuable News – 2020/07/27. OPNsense® 20.7 “Legendary Lion” released. Software inventory with Salt on FreeBSD. (via) My …
Lots of old BSD this week. Traditional Unix Toolchains. (via) 2.11BSD Original Tapes Recreation. Patch level 0. (via) Related: Adding Networking to 2.11BSD pl 195. Related if you want to do this yourself: SIMH Setup for 2.11BSD pl 0 Project. How to do Pull-ups to pkgsrc-stable. MidnightBSD 1.2.3 tagged. Enable Duo 2FA for SSH on …
See also Creating read-only PostgreSQL database users for pg_dump and pg_dumpall. I’m linking this because I use both articles on a regular basis. The error After a recent upgrade of MySQL server from 5.7.30 to 5.7.31, my database backups started encountered this error: mysqldump: Error: ‘Access denied; you need (at least one of) the PROCESS […]
The April to June 2020 Status Report is now available with 51 entries.
Dragged right out of my RSS feeds. Chai-Fi, the minimalistic wpa_supplicant.conf “manager” for FreeBSD. (via) Valuable News – 2020/06/29 and Valuable News – 2020/07/06. Classic ThinkPad Thermal Paste Change. Bookmarked cause I’ll eventually need it. There’s a Lenovo fan control for BSD buried in there too. FreeBSD Virtual Bug Squash event, happening today. Deep Integration of …
This should be prime convention season, darnit. Smallest device running BSD? Android in FreeBSD bhyve. (via) The FreeBSD binary package manager cheatsheet. Applies to DragonFly too. (via) BSDCan 2020 Charity Auction Results. BSDCAN 2020 talk on Using OpenBGPd as a Control Plane for an ISP. Graphical view of the x86 OpenBSD boot process. Command Line Bug …
Active committers to the project have elected your eleventh FreeBSD Core Team. For details, refer to the official announcement.
Chroot OriginsThis blog post will examine original artifacts to clear up some confusion about where chroot(2) and chroot(8) came from. The answer turns out to be simple, and the confusion was understandable. This shows the benefits of groups like …
Every time I go to create a new iocage jail, I cannot remember out the command.
Here we go, for next time:
iocage create -n devgit-ingress01 –thickjail host_hostname=devgit-ingress01.int.unixathome.org ip4_addr=10.0.0.141 –release 12.1-RELEASE
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I am replacing one zroot with another because of missing binaries and suspect layout. The existing zroot is an old system predating current zroot layouts. This work is being performed on a test system (that link is not safe for young eyes). In this post: FreeBSD 12.1 mfsBSD 12.1 The failed attempt I tried once, […]
FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 11.4. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information …
I like having shorter link texts so they all line up, but sometimes it’s unavoidably descriptive. FreeBSD’s new Code of Conduct. Gaming on OpenBSD. FreeBSD HEAD Binary Upgrades. (via bsdweekly) Install OpenBSD 6.7-current on a PineBook Pro 64. (via bsdweekly) TrueNAS is Multi-OS. My hot take is that this is a side effect of ZFS …