Freebsd 9.1 jails with Qjail

February 16, 2013 4 minute read

I’m using ezjail now.

The reason for this is that the port is marked as RESTRICTED. Since it seems to be a fork from ezjail without respecting the copyright and license https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-jail/2013-March/002149.html.

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I’m adding more services to my freebsd system

I’m coming from the solaris world where it’s a common practice to run services in separated containers for security reasons.

On FreeBSD there are jails to isolate services and improve security.

At first I didn’t like jails the way the freebsd handbook describes it requires a buildworld which takes a long time on my system with a AMD C-60 CPU.

Lucky Qjail makes the deployment a lot easier.

Running Freebsd 9.0 on Asus C60M1-i motherboard

December 16, 2012 less than 1 minute read

As my file and backup system pluto died i’m building a new one.

This system will run Freebsd mainly for the ZFS filesystem.

The motherbord will be a Asus C60M1-I. The cpu may not have not enough horsepower for deplucation at full speed but it has 6 sata ports which is not common on a mini ITX motherbord. I will reuse my old harddrives and add or replace them when I need more storage.

The freebsd 9.0 installation with ZFS root went well but the network adapter a Realtek 8111F isn’t supported by Freebsd 9.0. After checking google I found this on the freebsd-net mailinglist.

The realtek f8111F is supported in the latest driver code, after rebuilding my kernel the network adapter works fine. Very useful on a NAS ;-)

Lookat/Bekijk 1.4.2 released

December 12, 2012 less than 1 minute read

Finaly a long overdue release of Lookat / Bekijk the userfriendly file browser.

The new stable version 1.4.2 is available at the http://www.wagemakers.be/english/programs/lookat

Or at the Git repository at GNU savannah http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lookat.git

1.4.2 is a maintenance release. When there are more than 24 hours in a day I’ll start with the long waited utf-8 support ;-)

RIP: pluto

December 11, 2012 less than 1 minute read

After 10 year, my fileserver pluto died. Pluto was a AMD64 had 1GB RAM and 4 too loud samsung drives (160GB).

( 1 minute silence …. )

I take backups of course ;-) I already ordered the parts to build a new pluto.

Pluto still hosted some CSV repositorties like CGIpaf. But it’s time to move the source to a safer place. This will be github.

I also decided to create a blog and I wanted something that integrated well with github. Octopress seems to be the most logical choose. It’s written in ruby which is a nice bonus.