Updated VLAN configuration for VNET jails I use Ansible to deploy FreeBSD jails to my servers. I was running into an issue where the jails were starting without network connectivity. This led me down a path
freebsd Jira & Confluence on FreeBSD 13 Very overdue post since these products are EoL in 2024, but thought I'd share the steps regardless.
Cisco 7940 Custom Logo This is an older phone and as such, the internet isn't as saturated as I'd like with information on how to create a custom background image
freebsd Bind and cpuset: Resource deadlock avoided Jails, bind, and cpuset. A recipe for some Resource deadlock avoidance.
freebsd The journey from ezjail to jail.conf The journey from ezjail to jail.conf. From FIBs to VNET.
zoneminder ZoneMinder: Part 2 Upgraded....and...it broke. Here's the steps taken to fix ZoneMinder 1.32.3 on FreeBSD 11.2
mongoDB FreeBSD UniFi MongoDB upgrade Quick guide on how to upgrade from MongoDB 3.2 to 3.6 when using Ubiquiti's UniFi Controller
freebsd smartd on FreeBSD 11.2 Using smartd to monitor the health of physical storage devices like a hard drive or solid state drive.
freebsd FreeBSD 11 on DigitalOcean with a side of cloudinit Setting a custom DNS server and making it persistent.
zfs From dev to label ZFS and GPT work well together. Many have told me this, but it took me finding out the hard way.
pf Zabbix item on host failed: first network error Reboots only work on Windows. FreeBSD needs real troubleshooting.
ospf FreeBSD and OSPFd With FreeBSD Jails deployed around the world, static routing was getting a bit out of hand.
zfs ZFS send | ssh > jail Sending a ZFS dataset into a FreeBSD jail's dataset with all ZFS recv commands executed from within the jail.
freebsd Zabbix server in a FreeBSD11.1 Jail My SNMP monitoring was broken. It seemed like a good time to give Zabbix a go.
nginx nginx User Certificate Authentication Using user certificates as a first line of defense to secure a private website.
freebsd newsyslog: pid file doesn't exist syslogd can be bound to an IP when used in a jail but it can't be bound to an IP that doesn't exist.
LSI (Adaptec 5805z || LSI SAS9211-8i) + RES2SV240 For many years I've relied on an Adaptec 5805z RAID controller to safeguard my data. 10 years later, I needed an upgrade.
freebsd zfs send -i @snap | pedestrian | zfs recv ZFS is awesome. Hands down. But what happens when awesome meets the slow, capped internet?
freebsd Protect Ghost CMS on FreeBSD 11 Host a Ghost CMS using FreeBSD 11 and nginx while providing an extra layer of security for the admin portal.
