Earlier this week I did a portsupgrade(8) on my FreeBSD puppetmaster. After the upgrade was completed, puppet stopped working and was displaying these errors: err: /File[/var/puppet/lib]: Failed to generate additional resources using ‘eval_generate’: No format match the given format name…
Tag: FreeBSD
Restoring ZFS filesystems on FreeBSD
This past weekend, I wound up rebuilding the ZFS filesystem on my FreeBSD box. I went from a 2+1 RaidZ (5) system to a 4+1 and in the process increased the slice of each disk. After much trial and error,…
createrepo on FreeBSD
What is createrepo(8)? createrepo(8) is a python(1) script which reads the RPM metadata and creates XML files that yum(8) can use to determine what a RPM package provides, requires and may conflict with. To find out more details visit the…
xsysstats and rpc.rstatd
What is xsysstats? xsysstats is a rpc.rstatd client which graphically displays near real time performance statistics of the running unix kernel. The following statistics are available: cpu packets ipackets (packets in) opackets (packets out) pagei (page in) pageo (page out)…