i really gave it the college try, but i realized something towards the end… i learned there are a ton of things in linux that are taken for granted. fbsd has an amazing development team and i’m sure for someone who has a job maintaining freebsd servers its is great. but for someone trying to […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (part 8): fml with bastille MAKE A GD BRIDGE!!
just a warning…. MAKE A BRIDGE in /etc/rc.conf … then use the -B flag when creating jails!! (trust me) this lets you give the bridge an ip. that’s kind of important in situations that i’ve found where i can’t nullfs mount in the jail due to permissions so i was just going to use smb. […]
debian + polari + znc + irc
i never found a way to get polari to work with znc out the box because it doesn’t seem to want to support self signed certs or a reasonable way to login. i think i’m getting stuck at the handshake because of the cert but i have no idea. i may come back to this […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (part 7): jellyfin in a jail with nvidia hw transcoding
i want to use jellyfin and come away from using plex. there is a quick and easy post on how to get jellyfin working in a jail here but it doesn’t really speak about how to get the hw accel trancoding working. the freebsd server has an ancient nvidia P400 in it which worked fine […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (part 6): rclone smb mounting
i wrote an earlier post about this but i think i need to revamp it. most of it is the same. install rclone and run through rclone config. the problem i was having was with it auto mounting when jails start. i was unable to find a solution for this so i just did it […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (part 5): the shell box
so i’m going to make a playground ‘shell box’ in a jail and join it to the domain. this should be pretty straightforward and will let me know i can actually join the domain. i need to add a user to samba first but for now lets prepare the jail. i’m getting faster at this. […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (supplemental): export / backup jails with bastille
snapshots are not backups! do not rely on zfs snapshot to save your ass if you really break something or if a server completely loses it. (although.. a snapshot sent elsewhere, like another zpool on a different system, may be considered a backup). going off of the earlier post i was working on getting a […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (part 3): domain controller
i want to centralize auth. since i use smb a lot and anything i can think of supports active directory it makes sense to just use an active directory domain controller. i was going to try using freeipa but it seems like it targets fedora / rhel and not freebsd. so i will go with […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (part 2): jail creation
the vlan stuff isn’t important for joe single network but i wanted things separated so i created vlan 999 for creating the freebsd infrastructure. i’m going to start by creating a jail for the dc. my host hostname is devil (in keeping with the freebsd hell theme). so the assumption here is that freebsd is […]
moving to freebsd / jails / bhyve (part 1)
the conditions: i have freebsd 15.0-RELEASE installed and running. i have bastille installed and functional. i have a test jail running and worked out the kinks of doing some of the things i’ll need to do (like mounting smb in jails and seeing if logging in as AD users works). for this project i’m going […]