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In addition to using a VPN service, as an extra precaution I've been using the blocklist feature of my bittorrent clients and have several available. So if you're interested, take your pick. I use biglist.p2p. Some clients allow the actual URL in the textbox, others need you to download and specify the filesystem … [Read more...]
command '('gpart', 'create', '-s', 'gpt', '/dev/da8')' returned non-zero exit status 1. If you get this error while trying to create a pool in FreeNAS-11.2-U4.1 or wiping a disk, there seems to be an issue wiping the referenced hard disk (ie. /dev/da8). I don't have a root cause analysis at this time however `sysctl`shell is able to set a flag to ignore the error. I suspect it's either detecting bad sectors on the physical disk, or a rogue preexisting RAID config, and I have both. Deciding to … [Read more...]
I'm dual booting Windows and Linux Mint on my laptop. The grub default is to boot into Linux Mint, however many people will probably want to either boot the last boot entry saved, or boot into Windows instead. My preference is for grub to select by default and boot into whatever boot entry was selected last. This makes it easy if I want to just hit reboot and know that I'm going to load into the last used operating system. Boot into last booted Operating System: You will need to change/add the … [Read more...]
When you're a little too careless about virtualizing your domain controllers, cloning, migrating, backing up and restoring, returning from vacation and deciding that having a single box holding all the FSMO roles is dangerous to the network, you will inevitably find yourself in the same situation I've found myself in. A tell-tale sign that you need to manually reset the KDC secure channel on your problematic domain controller can be diagnosed with the following symptoms: Any mechanism … [Read more...]
I tried to retain the NGINX FastCGI cache and have it persist across system reboots instead of being ephemeral by default. In order to achieve this goal I needed to create a shell script, define a new systemd service unit, and find a way to run the systemd shell script before shutdown (reboots are included via `"Before="` declaration). This site is configured to store the cache in its `tmpfs` file system, which is a special Linux in-memory file system that abstracts and exposes itself typically … [Read more...]
Systemd is new service manager for Linux. It's a replacement for all previous init systems (SysV/SysVinit & Ubuntu's Upstart) and can manage system startup and services. It starts up and supervises the entire system. In the article we are using centos 7.0 installed with systemd 216 version and the latest version is available for download from freedesktop.org. Since 2015, the majority of Linux distributions have adopted systemd and it is considered a de facto standard. The name systemd … [Read more...]
