Finally changed chef-client with an updated recipe to support FreeBSD.
Under the chef-repo/chef-client directory, I added the following files:
./templates/freebsd/rc.d/chef-client.erb
./templates/freebsd/rc.conf.d/chef.erb
And updated:
./recipes/service.rb
The locations corresponds to the directory location under the default #{conf} directory …
read moreAs I mentioned before, Chef appears to work well on mostly Debian and Ubuntu. You will have to do a bit more work on the other OSes: In the case of FreeBSD, a lot more.
Here is one example: The recipe chef-clientis used to install startup scripts on the …
read moreread moreRecently, I have been googling how to make tunnels so I thought I would post what I do. A SSH tunnel allows you to connect to server, A, through server B, from client C.
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You generally only want to setup a tunnel when you need …
I have been playing around with Chef for the past week and while I liked it, it was a pain it setup. It seems to be work well if you run Debian and Ubuntu. Everything else … not so much.
First sign of trouble is when I attempt to bootstrap the …
read moreFinally got my FreeBSD client to authenticate against my OpenLDAP server.
The configuration is fairlystraightforward. What took the time wascompilation the dependencies (running it in a VM can do that to it). That and the following issues.
I ran into an interesting problem sometime back that I only now resolved.
Originally, I was running Scientific Linux on most of my VM. I have since upgraded most of them to Centos 6.0 - and converted on in particular to Centos CR.
That “broke” my ldapauthentication- when connecting to …
read moreread more### openSUSE 12.1 released ###
Version 12.1 of the popular openSUSE distribution got released. Its the first version numbered after the new numbering scheme and it brings some major changes.
In version 12.1 of the distribution, Gnome now comes in version 3.2 (in openSUSE 11.4, Gnome …
If you install FreeBSD on KVM, you encounter a problem where you are able to install it over the network, but not be able to get it to obtain an IP address after the initial reboot.
The solution is to add the following in /etc/rc.conf:
synchronous_dhclient=“YES”
And …
read moreread moreCentOS has been criticized heavily earlier this year, mainly because of the big delay their distribution normally has (compared to the original RHEL releases).
One of the problems that comes with this delay is that security fixes that RedHat writes for their latest release are unavailable for…