freebsd

Jira & Confluence on FreeBSD 13

Very overdue post since these products are EoL in 2024, but thought I'd share the steps regardless.

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.

freebsd

FreePBX on FreeBSD12 bhyve

Centos7 (UEFI) on FreeBSD12 with bhyve.

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.

freebsd

FreeBSD Custom Kernel - Multiple FIBs

Recompile the kernel to allow for multiple FIBs.

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.

freebsd

Quassel core on Freebsd 11

Quassel core on FreeBSD in a jail.

freebsd

ZoneMinder on FreeBSD 11.1

ZoneMinder in a FreeBSD 11 jail.

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

Ghost CMS FreeBSD RC Script

Ghost CMS startup & shutdown script for FreeBSD 11.

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.

freebsd

FreeBSD and Bind

Master and slave DNS servers in FreeBSD 11 jails.

ssh

SSHd and Yubikey

Setup SSHd to accept SSH keys, then fall back to password and Yubikey.

freebsd

FreeBSD Poudriere

Ports are awesome but not when you have to apply an update and take a production system down for the time it takes to recompile a binary. Poudriere to the rescue!

sh

Colorful MOTD

Just because some of us live in a terminal, doesn't mean we can't have color!