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- HOWTO Fix Artificially High Load Average on FreeBSD Running on Oracle Cloud
- HOWTO Allow Ping and Traceroute and MTR (ICMP) to Oracle Cloud Vm Instances and Generally Configure the Firewall- A Visual Guide
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Tag Archives: unix
HOWTO Fix Artificially High Load Average on FreeBSD Running on Oracle Cloud
I noticed that my amd64 VPSes on Oracle Cloud all had load averages over 1.0. These are the free tier VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro instances. # w 6:11PM up 5 days, 1 hr, 2 users, load averages: 1.39, 1.62, 1.41 This was with … Continue reading
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Tagged BSD, Computers, FreeBSD, Load Average, Oracle Cloud, unix, vm, VPS
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HOWTO Allow Ping and Traceroute and MTR (ICMP) to Oracle Cloud Vm Instances and Generally Configure the Firewall- A Visual Guide
So you set up your Free Oracle Cloud trial, including the always free tier which give you some free VPS virtual machines ostensibly forever. Or you are migrating your business resources to Oracle Cloud, as it is slightly less evil … Continue reading
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Tagged block, cloud, filtering, firewall, ICMP, ingress, mtr, Oracle, OracleCloud, ping, traceroute, unblock, unix
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Clock Offset When Running DragonFlyBSD in a VM with Bhyve under FreeBSD
When running a DragonFlyBSD system as a guest OS virtual machine under the Bhyve hpervisor running under FreeBSD as the host I ran into an issue where the clock on the DragonFlyBSD vm was way off and had to do … Continue reading
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Tagged bhyve, BSD, clock, Computers, DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, hypervisor, localtime, RTC, time, unix, UTC, Virtual Machine, vm
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HOWTO Fix Slow Networking with a WireGuard server in a FreeBSD Jail on a VPS, and Slow Downloads in a Jail on a VPS
I was setting up WireGuard server on a FreeBSD machine (13.0) on a VPS. In this case the VPS was a Contabo VPS which uses KVM. (Edit: I just encountered the same issue with an Oracle Cloud VM Instance as … Continue reading
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Tagged download, fix, FreeBSD, howto, jail, KVM, Networking, slow, unix, VPN, VPS, WireGuard
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HOWTO Fix obhttpd[1234]: parent: send server: Protocol not supported on FreeBSD
I was putting OpenBSD Httpd (obhttpd as it is known on FreeBSD) in a jail on FreeBSD 13.0. When I fired up the webserver I got the following error in the logs: obhttpd[1234]: parent: send server: Protocol not supported The … Continue reading
Custom Routing for FreeBSD Jails – or How To Set a Unique Default Route or Default Gateway for Each Jail
I was recently configuring a FreeBSD 13.0 box to run unbound (caching DNS Resolver) in two separate jails. The machine was connected to two WANs through two interfaces. The goal was to have one unbound jail route queries to WAN … Continue reading
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Tagged BSD, Computers, default gateway, dns, fib, FreeBSD, Internet, jail, route, routing, setfib, unbound, unix
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FreeBSD 13 on Raspberry Pi Hangs at First Reboot After Install
I have been putting FreeBSD on a couple of Raspberry Pis. One was an old Raspberry Pi Model B (256M of RAM– the first one released). The other was a newer RPI 3B. On the RPI3B I had a 64GB … Continue reading
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Tagged BSD, Bug, Fail, FreeBSD, growfs, Hang, Install, Mount Img File, mountroot, Raspberry Pi, SD Card, unix
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How to Fix It: Error connecting to database: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2054] The server requested authentication method unknown to the client with PHP and MySQLd
So you updated MySQLd, or perhaps you just updated your distro, like to Ubuntu 20 LTS or whatever the latest and great flavor of the day is… And now you keep getting these pesky errors every time you try to … Continue reading
courier mta Virtual Users Deliver to mbox Instead of Maildir – Failure of maildrop – .mailfilter Doesn’t Work
In a recent server upgrade (and in fact in a prior server upgrade a few years back) I ran into a problem where my Courier Mail Server (courier-mta) virtual users (virtual domains) for use with IMAP or POP3 (and with … Continue reading
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Tagged authdaemon, authmysql, Computers, config, courier, courier-mta, email, ESMTP, IMAP, linux, mail, maildrop, MySQL, POP, SMTP, Ubuntu, unix, Virtual, Virtual Domains, Virtual USers
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How to Fix Slow Samba smbd on OpenBSD
So I have been testing out a Samba file server on my OpenBSD 6.7 machine. Its read speed from the OpenBSD Samba server to a Windows 10 client was about 100MB/sec, right where I would expect it with Gigabit Ethernet. … Continue reading
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Tagged BSD, Computers, File Server, linux, OpenBSD, Samba, smb, smbd, sysctl, unix
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