Every once in a while the ports software on the NAS needs to be “rebased” with the newest. I have made a script that I can run in a screen. It will update the ports tree and compile the new software: portsnap fetch extract update pkgdb -F portsdb -Fu portupgrade -ac
Archive | January, 2012
Get rid of the warning when mounting AFP shares
Does your Mac also complain when you mount a share via AFP (netatalk-FreeBSD)? Something like this: Something wrong with the volume’s CNID DB, using temporary CNID DB instead. Check server messages for details. Switching to read-only mode. I solved this by adding a little to the rc.conf: cnid_metad_enable=”yes”
Change the icon of a FreeBSD served AFP server
I found a blogpost describing the setup of the icon: http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/2008/04/06/avahi-finder-icons/ So create (if not already present) a file: /usr/local/etc/avahi/services/afp.service And put e.g. this in it: <?xml version=”1.0″ standalone=’no’?><!–*-nxml-*–> <!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM “avahi-service.dtd”> <service-group> <name replace-wildcards=”yes”>%h</name> <service> <type>_afpovertcp._tcp</type> <port>548</port> </service> <service> <type>_device-info._tcp</type> <port>0</port> [...]
Using Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) with FreeBSD
I want to access my files on the FreeBSD NAS via AFP and not SMB. SMB is too Windows-like First we nee Bonjour to multicast the DNS-name of the server. This is implemented by avahi. (Why does it nee to install so many X ports…?) # cd /usr/ports/net/avahi # make install clean Now start the daemons [...]
How not to install Plex Media Server on FreeBSD
I have a FreeBSD server with a lot of out media on it. And I want to view this contents on my Apple TV. Plex and Plex Media Server (PMS) comes to mind. There is, however, not a port for FreeBSD of PMS. But fortunately there is good Linux support in FreeBSD, so I was [...]
Remounting geli and ZFS partitions
As I did a clean install and not an upgrade of my FreeBSD 8.2 to 9.0, I have to reconfigure everything from scratch I have 4 Western Digital disks with data – all in RAID-Z. And because they are Western Digital, they have 4K sectors and don’t work well with ZFS. So I also have [...]
DR Bonanza on the Apple TV
The danish television (DRTV) has put a lot of their old material in digital form on the net. Visit Bonanza to see it from you browser (if you are from Denmark). But I want to watch it on my Apple TV That is where XBMC comes in. Just add it via the Add-on manager in [...]
Installing FreeBSD on my NAS
Using the new bsdinstall works like a charm Thanks! I want a very small install – no doc, no games, no lib32, no src (I’m ok with the prebuilt kernels). So I just selected ports – I want to be able to add ports. It turns out that after boot I needed to install the [...]
Time to reinstall FreeBSD
Back in November 2009 I installed my NAS with the newest FreeBSD: 8.0. I made some choices about partitioning that I now want to redo. My initial partitioning was / had around 4.5 GB /tmp had around 0.5 GB /var had around 3 GB /home had around 895 GB And back then I actually decided that [...]
FreeBSD 9.0 is released!
Finally – need to find time to upgrade my NAS. Some of the nice new features are Updated version (28) of ZFS High performance SSH new installer bsdinstall I especially look forward to the new version of ZFS – maybe I can get rid of geli which I installed because WD disks have 4k sectors [...]
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