Category: FreeBSD
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Upgrading from dns/bind910 to dns/bind911
Upgrading from dns/bind910 to dns/bind911 isn’t particularly difficult. Hopefully, these notes will prepare you for your own endeavour.
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Boot menu changes in base/head r325694
Update 2017-11-13 r325743 corrected the mistakes. The below no longer applies. Remove /boot/loader.rc.local if you created it. /boot/loader.rc used to be copied from base/head/sys/boot/i386/loader/loader.rc on FreeBSD/amd64. With r325694 this changed to base/head/sys/boot/forth/loader.rc. Nothing was added to base/head/UPDATING, explaining this change. As instructed in /boot/loader.rc, to regain our beloved boot menu, we must create and edit […]
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pf(4) is a bit optimistic with regard to how many states it can track using the defaults. Raising the hard limits to four times the default seems better:
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I created a shell script which began its simple life as After running the script for a second time and a third time, etc, the script was successively changed to: Restart Apache using service apache24 restart. In the end, PHP 7.0.22 got upgraded to PHP 7.1.9. All is well.
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Without this patch, python2.7 will crash when the loop in setup.py reaches setupext.BackendGtk3Cairo().
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ocserv and user-profile=profile.xml
Running OpenConnect’s ocserv with user-profile=profile.xml creates some headache as all files are removed from /var/run at reboot. Enabling ocserv_prep in /etc/rc.conf and adding this shell script solves that problem.
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namei(1) from util-linux on FreeBSD
After a couple of crude attempts at making my own versions of namei(1) this spring, namei.c and namei.go, I decided to take a look at the original. My goals were to see if I had made any mistakes, and if possible, have the original properly working on FreeBSD.
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AMANDA 3.3.9 as of r441897
misc/amanda-{client,server} as of r441897 fails to create the directory /usr/local/etc/amanda and an empty file named /usr/local/etc/amanda/security.conf. The client will fail during client checks and backup runs claiming: failed: planner: [Can’t get realpath of the security file ‘/usr/local/etc/amanda/security.conf’: No such file or directory] Here’s the remedy in the short run: There is one additional issue, pkg-plist […]
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All commands were done as the root user unless indicated. This time it was necessary to create a new ZFS hierarchy of filesystems rooted at /var/db/postgres/data96. Also, the new PostgreSQL DBMS runs as the postgres user, not the pgsql user.
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r400699 created some headache for me. The UPDATING file has so far nothing on the matter.
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