Category: FreeBSD
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Trouble upgrading older Subversion on recent FreeBSD? You might be missing devel/scons
I upgraded Subversion 1.8.1 to 1.8.5 on some non-critical FreeBSD servers the other day. Normally I would run this command: portupgrade -fprv devel/subversion I noticed www/serf also needed updating, so this time I ran a command like: portupgrade -fprv www/serf
Read More → Trouble upgrading older Subversion on recent FreeBSD? You might be missing devel/sconsObserving leap seconds
I came across a blog post by Emil Mikulic on the leap second introduced by the IERS on 1 July 2012. Inspired by Emil Mikulic’s blog post, I created the following short programme.
Read More → Observing leap secondsHaving trouble starting named from dns/bind99 automatically? Here’s how I solved it!
I tried to convince named from dns/bind99, as of r333563, to start automatically at (re)boot on stable/10 and head. My /etc/rc.conf file contains lines like these: named_enable=”YES” named_program=”/usr/local/sbin/named” named_wait=”YES” named_wait_host=”localhost” named_auto_forward=”YES” named_auto_forward_only=”YES” Eventually, I resolved the matter using the following patch: The tabs are missing, so you better apply this patch by hand. It’s not […]
Read More → Having trouble starting named from dns/bind99 automatically? Here’s how I solved it!NITO vs FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE
Fra #lilug@EFnet: Day changed to 01 Oct 2013 08:37:15 for dere NITO-frelste med utpreget sans for ordspill, så er FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE tilgjengelig: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.2R/announce.html 08:55:05 < xxxxxxx> Haha
Read More → NITO vs FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE10 Gbit/s virtual wire speed in VirtualBox 4.2.16
I updated my FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT virtual machine today. It reached r255120 and it’s running with vtnet as its virtual network interface under VirtualBox 4.2.16. I noticed the vtnet0 interface gained 10 Gbit/s virtual wire speed. Previously the interface ran with only 1 Gbit/s virtual wire speed. The actual wire speed depends largely on the physical limitations of […]
Read More → 10 Gbit/s virtual wire speed in VirtualBox 4.2.16FreeBSD and WITH_ICONV
I’ve put WITH_ICONV=yes in my /etc/src.conf file on a few VMs running stable/9, and yes, I got burned. My beloved server named enterprise running stable/9 was also affected. :-/
Read More → FreeBSD and WITH_ICONVbootparttest
I’m following this thread with great interest, and I wanted to try bootparttest on one of my own computers.
Read More → bootparttestMoving ZFS datasets around eases the transition from CVSup to Subversion
I upgraded some of my virtual machines during my summer holiday. They are all running ZFS, but were neglected for so long that they were still updating their source and ports trees using CVSup. I began pondering how to migrate to Subversion with the least fuzz possible. Luckily, I had anticipated the switch to Subversion, […]
Read More → Moving ZFS datasets around eases the transition from CVSup to SubversionAlternative ZFS layout
I’ve been experimenting with FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT and an alternative ZFS layout for more than a year. The idea is to have a simple way of switching between boot environments. Thus, you have the opportunity of reverting to a previous boot environment without resorting to snapshots and rollbacks as you would with a sole boot environment. […]
Read More → Alternative ZFS layoutAre one of the disks beginning to fail?
These messages appeared in the kern log file the other day: Jun 21 22:06:06 enterprise kernel: [282015] (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): WRITE_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 61 18 38 ce 72 40 0b 00 00 00 00 00 Jun 21 22:06:06 enterprise kernel: [282015] (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): CAM status: Uncorrectable parity/CRC error Jun 21 22:06:06 enterprise kernel: [282015] (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): Retrying command Jun 21 […]
Read More → Are one of the disks beginning to fail?