This was a beautiful sight this morning. The image below is a VirtualBox console showing a booted FreeBSD system. That system has been restored from a ZFS snapshot taken last November. So, how did we do it?
Read On →A while ago I wrote about using acme.sh to automate my HTTPS certificates.
In the post I used a domain (bnix.club) along with a number of specific subdomains (“logs.bnix.club”, “f.bnix.club”, “www.bnix.club”).
I maintain the hugo (www/gohugo) FreeBSD Port. In a recent release (0.51) a situation arose where the dependency “mitchellh/mapstructure” required a fix. The Github repository for the dependency was forked to “bep/mapstructure” and a Pull Request to the original repository made. The Pull Request wasn’t pulled into the original repo in time for the 0.51 release (and still haven’t at time of writing), so the developers have instead specified both the original and forked repos as dependencies.
Read On →Quite often I want to run an ad-hoc command against a number of hosts, usually this is a subset of an existing group (and often new nodes added to a group).
Read On →Often when I’m away from home I leave my iMac on in case I need to grab anything from it remotely, plus it’s ready to go when I get home. Usually I access it using SSH, via a Raspberry Pi:
Read On →I’ve been meaning to use Let’s Encrypt for some time now, I don’t really have a good excuse as to why it’s taken so long, other than I wanted to use DNS to verify I owned the relevant domains, and I hadn’t found an easy enough tool to use.
Read On →Yesterday FreeBSD 11.1 was released. Once I got into work I started upgrading the VM I use for day to day activities. After creating a Boot Environment (BE) using beadm(1), and running the upgrade and install parts of freebsd-update(8), I rebooted into a newly activated BE only to find I had an 11.1 kernel, but a 11.0 userland…
Read On →Last week on Twitter I was promoting BSD on the desktop.
Read On →I play with my Raspberry Pi so rarely that I forget how to use my CP2102 serial converter to connect from my iMac or FreeBSD laptop to the Raspberry Pi, so I thought I’d write a blog post and then I’d have an easy place to go back to remember how…
Read On →At work I deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux VMs, for a variety of reasons, mostly by hand.
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