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Comment on BSDCan 2013 Talk: FreeBSD Birth to Death: Managing the Lifecycle of a FreeBSD Server by cheffo

cheffo — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:35:11 +0000

This is very nice list of open source projects.
May I add http://graylog2.org/ to it

Comment on Puppet + pkgng/poudriere by rodrigc

rodrigc — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:51:41 +0000

Nice post, puppet is very useful.

Comment on The Importance of Serial Console by brd

brd — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:29:02 +0000

I believe some of those Kernel Options have been replaced with sysctls. Such as the debug.kdb.alt_break_to_debugger sysctl. I have not had time to play with these yet. But for my purposes I prefer to run a GENERIC kernel.

Comment on The Importance of Serial Console by langseth

langseth — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:43:24 +0000

We do the same with our servers. One other thing we do is add the kernel debugger, this allows us to reboot in all except a few system lockups. While we need it less now that we switched to newer ipmi enabled hardware we still have a considerable number of older systems that do not have ipmi.

Additional kernel config:
options KDB
options KDB_UNATTENDED
options DDB
options ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER

Then on the serial console I can break to the debugger using ~+B and use http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-online-ddb.html

Comment on New FreeBSD Forums box has been Shipped! by brd

brd — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:28:57 +0000

Yup

Lets look at moving them over.

Comment on New FreeBSD Forums box has been Shipped! by Dutch Daemon

Dutch Daemon — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:49:50 +0000

Can I ban users even faster now?

It would be nice to finally run all of my scripts on the server instead of at home

Comment on Pushing the Puppet patch for FreeBSD password management upstream by Tim Bishop

Tim Bishop — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:53:55 +0000

Hey Brad,

That was me Thanks for publishing the original patch. I’ve already got some of my changes in to the FreeBSD port.

Just waiting for it all to be merged upstream now. And sanity checked, since it’s my first time with Ruby!

Tim.

Comment on BSDCan: FreeBSD Developer Summit by Gábor Kövesdán

Gábor Kövesdán — Mon, 16 May 2011 12:29:28 +0000

As for the XML migration of the doc tree… I have almost completed it, although there are some simple and easy open tasks and it also needs a merge from the current HEAD of the doc tree because I haven’t had time to work on it recently. Still, I’m quite busy with different things but I hope to finish it by the end of the summer.

Comment on The Right Way(tm) to change password hashes on FreeBSD with Puppet by brd

brd — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:21:06 +0000

The patch was committed as part of this update to 2.6.7:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2011-April/215351.html

Comment on The Right Way(tm) to change password hashes on FreeBSD with Puppet by brd

brd — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:22:30 +0000

That is a good idea. We created a new patch with your suggestions.. See: http://freebsd.so14k.com/puppet/pw_managespasswords2.diff