FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE was released a few days ago. This means it’s time to upgrade the FreeBSD running on my nas. For the most part, this was all what I did: # freebsd-update -r 11.2-RELEASE upgrade # freebsd-update install # reboot # freebsd-update install After it’s been upgraded, I also need to update the Zpool. root@nas:~ # zpool status pool: zroot state: ONLINE status: Some supported features are not enabled on the pool. The pool can still be used, but some features are unavailable. action: Enable all features using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done, the pool may no longer be accessible by software that does not support the features. See zpool-features(7) for details. scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h0m with 0 errors on Tue Jan 23 23:54:42 2018 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM zroot ONLINE 0 0 0 gpt/zfs0 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors Let’s upgrade the zpool zroot as suggested: ...

With fresh installation of Fedora 28 I wasn’t able to play any downloaded Japanese animations with the default movie player – Dragon player. My other machine which also runs Fedora 28 could play the movie fine. Without any doubts I must have installed some additional codecs on that machine. But which codecs? Like last time, Google I must search. I’m going to write this post so I wouldn’t have to repeatedly search for the same solution. ...

To reload tmux’s config without quitting and starting it again, we can hit Ctrl + B then :. Once the we get the prompt just run: :source-file ~/.tmux.conf Ref: https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/reloading-tmux-config/

Tonight I started to review the learning material for Red Hat System Administration III to prepare for RHCSE exam. I need a machine with GUI, and all my CentOS 7 VMs are headless. So let’s install the GUI on it, shall I? First install epel repo, if it’s not yet installed: # yum install epel-release -y Then install the 2 groups: # yum groupinstall "X Window system" -y # yum groupinstall "MATE Desktop" -y Tip, if “I” can’t remember the names of the groups, I can run this command to list all available groups: ...

FreeBSD 12.0 install media :20180208 misses a lot of timezone file. E.g. it doesn’t have /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney. Ensure: zoneinfo package is installed. Then run: # tzsetup And confirm: Fri Feb 16 00:19:48 AEDT 2018