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  • The Short List #6: Make the CD drive do something useful on #FreeBSD

    Noted today that while grip could access the CD drive on my machine, clemetine-player and xfburn could not. Figure out which device node your CD drive is with camcontrol: camcontrol devlist | grep cd at scbus4 target 0 lun 0 (cd0,pass2) Simply add the following to /etc/devfs.conf and restart devfs to get access to the […]

    March 30, 2014
  • Burning all the bridges. Cleaning up jails with ezjail-admin on #FreeBSD

    I noted that my updates on my jail host didn’t actually do a delete-old/delete-old-libs during the basejail process: ezjail-admin update -i I tend to update my jails with my base host svn updates to -current, so there’s a bit of churn and burn with regards to old files and such. This came to a head […]

    February 26, 2014
  • httperf tuning for #FreeBSD testing

    Was playing around with httperf to excercise Apache / stunnel SSl benchmarks on FreeBSD this week and ran into the code that nerfs simultaneous connections down from the environment ulimit of maxfiles to the limit FD_SETSIZE as defined in <select.h>. One can override this at compile time and push the system harder by passing in […]

    February 5, 2014
  • The short list #5: coredumping with sudo on #FreeBSD

    Things I learned from a misbehaving pam module managing our sudo context at work.  sudo, for security, will not dump core files if it hits a segfault.  You need to tell the kernel to allow set uid root binaries to core dump *and* you have to let sudo know that its ok via a sudo.conf […]

    January 28, 2014
  • The Short List #4: p4 foo

    change a file in perforce to be executable on checkout.   p4 edit -t <type>+x <file name> p4 submit <file name>

    January 10, 2014
  • You need to construct additional pylons. Building wine for #FreeBSD

    I’ve been playing Blizzards’s Starcraft 2 on Linux via wine emulation lately and thought I’d see if I can get the same thing working on FreeBSD via the emulators/i386-wine-devel port.  After talking with the fine folks in #bsdports on EFNet, I finally found a recipe that is poudriere friendly and seems to spit out something […]

    December 19, 2013
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