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Dan Langille

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<p>dvl@FreeBSD.org</p><p>I&#39;ve been contributing to open source since 1998.</p>

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  • Post #4510317

    I have good news / bad news on a #FreeBSD package I use security/pam_ssh_agent_auth is deprecated: This PAM module is abandonware: no code updates for 8+ years, no new releases for 6+ years. See security/pam_rssh or security/pam_ssh_agent for alternatives with very similar functionality. Have any of you switched already and have a recommendation? @mwl@io.mwl.io is responsible for me starting to use security/pam_ssh_agent_auth - perhaps he&#39;s already switched.

  • Post #4377321

    Current status: updating #FreeBSD 15.0 jails to FreeBSD 15.1 That consists of two main steps: * pkgbasify * mkjail upgrade -j $MYJAIL I&#39;ve modified my local copy of mkjail to use pkg, not freebsd-update. https://github.com/mkjail/mkjail/tree/62-pkgbase

  • Post #4377319

    For my next trick, running `mkjail upgrade -a` to get the jails still on #FreeBSD 15.0 onto 15.1 `mkjail` will be greatly simplified under #pkgbase.

  • Post #4021680

    Yes, the #FreeBSD ports tree is frozen. No, it has not been compromised. Please stand by. https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2026-July/000294.html

  • Post #3909954

    As of 11:59:45 UTC on Saturday July 18, 2026, all my hosts are running #FreeBSD 15.1 Every. Last. One. Of. Them. #pkgbase Such a fast &amp; easy upgrade. Thank you.

  • Post #3475106

    I ran pkgbasify: https://dan.langille.org/2026/06/29/running-pkgbasify-on-freebsd-15-1/ #FreeBSD

  • Post #3472396

    So. pkgbasify 15.0 then upgrade to 15.1? or upgrade to 15.1 then pkgbasify? #FreeBSD

  • Post #3384603

    My VictoriaLogs instance just hit 10 million log entries over the past 7 days. How much space is that on disk? About 450MB [13:36 r730-01 dvl ~] % zfs list data04/victoria-logs NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT data04/victoria-logs 449M 13.7T 449M /jails/logs/var/db/victoria-logs Or, according to du inside the jail, 426 MB: [13:37 logs dvl ~] % sudo du -ch -d 0 /var/db/victoria-logs 426M /var/db/victoria-logs 426M total

  • Post #3366665

    Good dog.

  • Post #3339891

    This is Nginx (dev.freshports.org) dumping access logs in JSON format, with syslog-ng sending them to another host (logs.int.unixathome.org) via TLS, and dumping them into Victoria Logs. Both &quot;hosts&quot; are FreeBSD 15.0 jails.

  • Post #3329221

    After about 15 minutes, I have a reverse Nginx proxy giving me access to the Victoria Logs UI. Never mind that &#39;unsupported path requested&#39; and &#39;Failed to load logs&#39; - I suspect that&#39;s a proxy issue. No data yet. Walking. Not running.

  • Post #3317640

    A better Walter photo. Shows his conference badge.

  • Post #3300514

    Are you running https://www.freshports.org/deskutils/py-paperless-ngx/ on your #freebsd server? Is it a webui?

  • Post #3300317

    The office for the next hour or so.

  • Post #2867682

    On Sunday, I upgraded from rsync-3.4.1 to rsync-3.4.3 Things broke, everywhere. It was my fault. I had a / where I should not have had one. It&#39;s all fixed now though: https://dan.langille.org/2026/05/26/usr-local-sbin-rrsync-error-unsafe-arg-usr-home-rsyncer-backups/

  • Post #2257015

    More on #FreshPorts vs restrictions on search, etc. Last night, I received a CPU alert regarding the database server. I logged in and restricted search to logged-in users. [13:15 aws-1 dvl ~] % sudo grep &amp;#39;joe&amp;#39; /var/log/auth.log.1 May 4 00:57:46 aws-1 sudo[37761]: dvl : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/usr/home/dvl ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/local/bin/joe /jails/nginx01/usr/local/etc/freshports/constants.local.php This change means anyone not logged into FreshPorts with their FreshPorts...

  • Post #2224453

    #pgbackrest is dead. What next? https://mydbanotebook.org/posts/pgbackrest-is-dead.-now-what/ #PostgreSQL

  • Post #2160677

    Search on FreshPorts is again restricted to registered users. Search traffic doubled from 40% to 77% just after 00:00 UTC on May 6. Details here: https://gist.github.com/dlangille/f7244e592c663a16a8350816ac50a9a5

  • Post #2029062

    Let’s put the #FreeBSD patch levels right on the list of supported versions. Don’t force newbie to go looking at security announcements to know what patch level they should have. here’s a starting point courtesy RWP: git ls-remote https://git.freebsd.org/src.git | grep -F refs/tags/release/14.4

  • Post #1538998

    Let&#39;s see what happens if I reboot all my hosts at the same time... #FreeBSD

  • Post #568651

    Have any of you run pkgbasify on a #FreeBSD jail? Please tell me about it. I have about 80 jails eagerly awaiting your reply. re: https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify