Thursday, 07 Feb 2019 10:21:31 · 4 minute readThis 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 → Sunday, 06 Jan 2019 14:33:43 · 2 minute readA 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”).
Read On → Friday, 28 Dec 2018 16:07:29 · 5 minute readI 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 → Tuesday, 13 Nov 2018 14:33:20 · 1 minute readQuite 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 → Wednesday, 21 Mar 2018 19:16:27 · 2 minute readOften 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 → Sunday, 05 Nov 2017 22:07:27 · 6 minute readI’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 → Thursday, 27 Jul 2017 21:43:35 · 3 minute readYesterday 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 → Monday, 08 Feb 2016 18:49:32 · 3 minute readLast week on Twitter I was promoting BSD on the desktop.
Read On → Tuesday, 29 Dec 2015 15:12:17 · 1 minute readI 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 → Tuesday, 04 Aug 2015 11:07:03 · 1 minute readAt work I deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux VMs, for a variety of reasons, mostly by hand.
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