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Automate NextCloud updates

Here is my script to automate NextCloud updates. They can be put into crontab in example: #!/bin/csh setenv nextcloud "/usr/local/www/nextcloud" pushd $nextcloud sudo -u www -D $nextcloud /usr/local/bin/php --define apc.enable_cli=1 updater/updater.phar --no-interaction sudo -u www -D $nextcloud /usr/

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Automate GHOST updates

Here are my scripts for automaticaly update my GHOST updates on FreeBSD. First i'm listing my rc.d script for starting it: #!/bin/sh # PROVIDE: ghost # REQUIRE: DAEMON SERVERS mysql postgresql slapd # KEYWORD: shutdown # # Add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf to enable powerdns: # # ghost_enable="YES" # PATH="/sbin:

MySQL

MySQL 8.0.27 upgrade failure

If after the upgrade the mysql doesn't start don't panic! In mysql8 mysql_upgrade command is dummy, and the database upgrades automatic on first restart. In my scenario I was upgrading from 8.0.26 to mysql8.0.27 and I see errors like bellow and the database won't start:

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Upgrade PostgreSQL 13.5 to 14.1 on FreeBSD

Stop your postgresql [https://www.postgresql.org] database daemon on FreeBSD [https://freebsd.org] machine: service postgresql stop Create package containing your old version ( 13.5 ) binaries ( depends are you using postgresql13-contrib package, but command will not fail if it is missing ) pkg create postgresql13-server postgresql13-contrib Uncompress them somewhere in

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Howto run and update ghost 4.x on node.js 17.x

It looks that there is big inconsistency in FreeBSD ports [https://www.freebsd.org/ports/] - related to python 3.10 [https://www.python.org] and node.js [https://nodejs.org/en/]. Currently only node.js 17.x can be build if you have such combination of programming languages on

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Installing [matrix]-bridges on FreeBSD

Here is my example using mautrix-facebook [https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-facebook] as example‌ $ mkdir bridges/facebook $ cd bridges/facebook $ virtualenv -p /usr/local/bin/python3.7 . $ bash $ source bin/activate $ pip install --global-option=build_ext --global-option="-I/usr/local/include" --upgrade git+https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-facebook.git#egg=mautrix-facebook[

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ELF binary type "0" not known.

Today I've invested some time to bring back to life my personal Cloud storage [https://cloud.ostreff.info/]. The reason for his death was upgrade to PHP8 [https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php]. So after some research I've found that at this moment the only compatible to

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Build graphics/pecl-imagick PHP 8 compatible extension

The version in the ports tree is not working - it shows some errors when installed. But the source on the master brach of the Imagick repo [https://github.com/Imagick/imagick] seems to work. Here's how you can use it. 1. Clone the repo somewhere on disk 2. Execute

FreeBSD

How to build and install Mattermost plugins on FreeBSD

I was unpleasantly surprised to find that all plugins published on Mattermost plugin marketplace [https://integrations.mattermost.com] are not working on installed server on FreeBSD. They all are failing to start - it doesn't matter did you enabled linux64 emulation [https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/linuxemu/] inside

Telco

How to set DSCP/COS in FreeBSD and use it in Telco environment

Preserving QoS [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_of_service] parameters in Telco environment, where part of the equipment is following 3gpp [https://www.3gpp.org] rules and other part is followin ietf [https://www.ietf.org] rfcs rules is really chalenging. And of course there is allways need to

FreeBSD

Problems with transmission-daemon with IPv6 and some other popular issues

Remove IPv6 detection The problem with net-p2p/transmission-daemon and IPv6 is that transmission developers are … not willing to implement such functionality as visible from: https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/4197 So the user who need to use IPv6 but NOT use IPv6 with transmission are left alone. So you can

FreeBSD

How to grow zfs on FreeBSD running inside VMWare

Live ZFS resizing inside VMWare should be possible, but there are several steps: First you should resize your virtual disk in VMWare configuration. Recomendation is all virtual disks to be similar size for best performance in VMWare. Then check what is disk configuration using: # gpart show => 34 629145526 da0 GPT

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MySQL command for finding all MyISAM databases, and convert them to innodb

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TCP Fast Open (TFO) on FreeBSD

TCP Fast Open [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_Fast_Open] ( [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_Fast_Open]TFO [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_Fast_Open]) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_Fast_Open]is an extension to speed up the opening of successive Transmission Control Protocol [https:

FreeBSD

How To Secure HAProxy with Let's Encrypt

Combine fullchain.pem and privkey.pem > DOMAIN='example.com' ; sudo -E bash -c 'cat /usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/live/$DOMAIN/fullchain.pem /usr/local/etc/letsencrypt/live/$DOMAIN/privkey.pem > /usr/local/etc/haproxy/$DOMAIN.pem' The first thing we want to add is a frontend to handle incoming HTTP

FreeBSD

Procedure to replace a zfs on root disk (zroot)

Редактиране на публикация Switch to draftПрегледОбновяванеДобавяне на заглавие The procedure, as typed, for replacing ada2 with ada8: # gpart backup ada2 | gpart restore -F ada8 # zpool replace zroot /dev/ada2p3 /dev/ada8p3 (wait for resilver checking via "zpool status") # swapoff /dev/ada2p2 # swapon /dev/ada8p2 ( verify via swapinfo ) If the size

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Enable WDDX extension in PHP 7.4 or 8.0

This extension is DEPRECATED and REMOVED as of PHP 7.4 or 8.x. What is WDDX – WDDX (Web Distributed Data eXchange) is a programming language, platform and transport-neutral data interchange mechanism designed to pass data between different environments and different computers. #cd ~ #git clone https://github.com/php/pecl-text-wddx.