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Upgraded to FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE

My small FreeBSD based droplet which I run in DigitalOcean is certainly unrepresentative but nevertheless I was very pleased with the smoothness of my recent upgrade to FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE. Just a single reboot and here I am running the latest version of FreeBSD: [freebsd@flagword ~]$ freebsd-version 13.0-RELEASE

Posted on April 16, 2021 at 4:38 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: FreeBSD

Where GREP came from – Brian Kernighan

Posted on July 6, 2018 at 10:27 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Apple, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris

Another FreeBSD drop into the Digital Ocean

After several happy years with FreeBSD running in AWS I finally have switched to Digital Ocean. That happened a few days ago and was driven mainly by the lack of the console support which “aws ec2 get-console-output”, in my opinion, is certainly not. After the upgrade to FreeBSD 11 I found my instance unreachable and […]

Posted on November 9, 2016 at 7:30 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · 2 Comments
In: FreeBSD, Life

Pair “Listen queue overflow” FreeBSD errors with pcb

Just yesterday, after an upgrade to MySQL 5.7.12, saw plenty of errors were being logged in the system: sonewconn: pcb 0xfffff8006311c870: Listen queue overflow: 151 already in queue awaiting acceptance (1 occurrences) sonewconn: pcb 0xfffff8006311c870: Listen queue overflow: 151 already in queue awaiting acceptance (1 occurrences) sonewconn: pcb 0xfffff8006311c870: Listen queue overflow: 151 already in […]

Posted on May 19, 2016 at 10:40 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Doing morning FreeBSD update

Applying FreeBSD patches is freaking easy. 

Posted on May 6, 2016 at 9:33 am by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Bryan Cantrill is back in BSDNow show

Another astonishing appearance of Bryan Cantrill in BSD Now episode Highly recommended.

Posted on November 26, 2015 at 8:52 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Bryan Cantrill in BSD Now podcast

The lastest episode of BSD Now (103) podcast brought in a fantastic and hilarious interview with Bryan Cantrill who is well known for his wit and right on the bullseye rants. It’s been awhile since I cried laughing so unquestionably this video is a highly recommended. Not to mention that his talk was very educational […]

Posted on August 21, 2015 at 2:31 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: FreeBSD, Solaris, Sun

AWS FreeBSD instance won’t come up. Screams for manual fsck.

This is a short write up if after a reset or a reboot your FreeBSD (or Linux) instance doesn’t come online, stalls and “aws ec2 get-console-output” returns something like that among its lines: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. Just power-off the faulty instance either from Web interface or using cli: aws ec2 stop-instances –instance your_instance_id […]

Posted on June 27, 2015 at 4:07 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · 7 Comments
In: FreeBSD

Videos from EuroBSDCon 2014

In the last episode of BSDNow podcast a link to the videos from EuroBSDCon 2014 has been published – https://va.ludost.net/files/eurobsdcon/2014/Vitosha/ The one I enjoyed most was a presentation made by Kirk McKusik about the implementation of ZFS. Worth watching indeed.

Posted on January 31, 2015 at 3:38 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
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How Cisco Ironport picks an outgoing IP address if there are many on the same subnet

If your IronPort is configured with multiple IP addresses on the same subnet and you wonder which one is used then Cisco has an answer for you: Q: Which is the default used IP address (AUTO) if there are multiple IP addresses on the same subnet? A: If there are multiple IP addresses configured within […]

Posted on December 18, 2014 at 9:33 pm by sergeyt · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: FreeBSD