I want to try out iSCSI[wiki-iscsi] more, I've always liked the idea but never really got it working the way I wanted to.

So my plan right now is to use FreeBSD as both target and initiator so I kind of have a sane grip on both ends of …

Right, so from time to time I end up installing a FreeBSD system while there's only one disk for the os, sometimes by accident and sometimes on purpose.

Sometimes, it's just because the old mirror has a really bad drive it in and I want to freshen it up a …

So, there are things I want to do on a FreeBSD after the installation. A few things I want to make sure is exactly as I want it to make the place feel more like home.

First of all, I want a few packages that I want installed to make …

So, I've turned to FreeBSD lately, firstly because I really like The Z Filesytem. I started using it from Openindiana which has worked really well it's a nice platform, and it's always kind of fun to try out platforms that are a bit different from the regular platform.

I tried …

So I've been struggling with getting TLS working right on my gitlab-pages, all the errors I got were some ~weird~ handshake errors.

140658708418368:error:14077438:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert internal error:s23_clnt.c:769:

And querying with curl really didn't offer many clues as to what might be wrong …

So, I have the old post about fixing up my openindiana install.

I recently did an install of a hipster (bleeding edge..) openindiana and the post-install dance is a bit different there.

Quite simply, I do the following as root after install.

Add some publishers

pkg set-publisher -g https://pkg …

This might be the only trick I'll write down, perhaps it'll actually be a series of tiny things I find useable when working with git.

All of theese will probably assume some basic knowledge of how git actually works and possible also assume some level of experience. It will mostly …

So, I have this openindiana, and I'd like it to have a network configuration. But something slightly more advanced than what's default. So during the installation, instead of selecting "Automatic" network, I'll say "none" and have a network-wise blank box start up.

So, for instance.

# ipadm show-if
IFNAME STATE CURRENT …

More often than not, I've got some kind of data in a postgresql database that is somehow described by timestamps.

Simple test table like this:

create table testdata (
   id serial,
   d numeric,
   ts timestamp without time zone default now()
);

Using bash I'll populate it a bit with not too unrealistic …

So, having installed a few (honestly, it's 3..) openindiana boxes I found myself doing the same thing over and over again to bring what I could be rather cocky and call, a little bit of sanity, to the default pkg setup.

First of all, we take care of the 'pkg' …