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Implementing clean RSS, an archive page and fulltext search for c0t0d0s0.org
Rescuing the environment.
A few NFS tools in Solaris 11 still used NFSv1. This has been changed.
Two small additions to the pgrep/pkill commands to limit the scope of both commands.
How to simulate bad network conditions β up to TCP/IP over avian carriers
As I had quite a fight with a larger IKEA PAX closet for my bedroom, I hadn't quite the time to complete the ZFS retention article so far. Thus today a smaller...
Yet another small addition to Solaris 11.4. This one was released with SRU 57. `reboot`, `shutdown` and `poweroff` got a new option. With `-c` you can now...
I'm not allowed to watch games of the national team of Germany. Currently Germany is playing against Spain. Friends and family have forbidden me to watch the...
Historic values are sometimes quite useful to have an overview of what's happened in the past on your system, but quite often it's only something you have to...
newtask is an important tool when you start applications in a different project context, for example for resource control purposes. Maybe you remember my...
*(This blog entry was in the publication queue for a while, so Chris Beal overtook me with his great blog entry )* For a very long time there are some security...
One of the many enhancements to well-known tools like truss was the introduction of the option -G to said command. When you truss a command with -E it shows...
Most of the time when trussing a process you are not interested in all the system calls that are working perfectly and which are scrolling by at high speed....
Why newly created Solaris accounts cannot be accessed via SSH public key authentication and how SRU 87 improves the situation
Die heilende Behandlung im Anschluss in der Anschlussheilbehandlung
Von Schlafpositionen und gezogenen Kabeln
Von Isolation und dem Mangel an Rhythmus
Von Schmerzen, ersten Erfolgen und wirren Bildern
Von den Tagen rund um die OP und fehlenden Erinnerungen
Γber eine Stimme von der Grenze und dem Survivorship Bias in der Praxis
Vorbereitungen zur OP und dΓΌstere Gedanken
Teufelkreise, Stofftiere und Unvermeidbarkeit
Anderes Leben und haessliche Schlafanzuege
Koblenz und die Zufallsdiagnose
Γber LΓ€rm und Enge, bildgebende Magnete und ΓΌber Briefe, die den Lauf des Lebens verΓ€ndern
Γber einen Brief, meinen Urlaub und zerstΓΆrte PlΓ€ne
I'm currently sitting at my desk looking at a heap of cables. Display cables. You don't think too much about display cables. At least I did not think too much...
You may know that I'm very interested in aviation, despite the fact that I had a quite severe case of "being totally afraid of flying" in the past . Or perhaps...
My personal approach of protecting the data on my home NAS with replicas instead of RAID.
Als ich gestern auf meinem Garmin die Fahrt beendet habe, habe ich fΓΌr mich ganz persΓΆnlich erst einmal ein Mikrophon gedanklich fallen gelassen. Ja, um es...
Ich war in meinem Leben nicht wenig unterwegs. Aufgeregt bin ich trotzdem. War ich immer. Je weiter, desto aufgeregter. Morgen gehts los. Das, was da morgen...
Implementing clean RSS, an archive page and fulltext search for c0t0d0s0.org
I've decided to bring something back. 10 years ago I stopped blogging at a frequent schedule for various reasons. But still the content of that period is...
Als ich gestern auf meinem Garmin die Fahrt beendet habe, habe ich fΓΌr mich ganz persΓΆnlich erst einmal ein Mikrophon gedanklich fallen gelassen. Ja, um es...
Auch heute war wieder eine Γberquerung der A7 der Punkt, an dem ich umgedreht bin. So irgendwie die Elbe ΓΆstlich von Lauenburg ein gefΓΌhltes Hindernis ist, so...
Wie groΓ ist eigentlich der Unterschied zwischen E-Bike-Fahren und Rennradfahren? Erstaunlich gering, wie ich finde. Ich habe mit deutlich mehr gerechnet. Ich...
Verdammt noch mal, es ist Mitte Juni. Nur hat dieses Jahr das noch nicht bemerkt. Eigentlich sollte es warm sein. Zumindest ein bisschen. # Handbekleidung Ich...
Ich bin heute das erste Mal seit lΓ€ngerer Zeit wieder mit Musik auf den Ohren gefahren. Ich habe eine Sonnenbrille, die gleichzeitig ein Bluetooth-KopfhΓΆrer...
Ich habe durch die ersten BlogeintrΓ€ge hier einiges ΓΌber das neue Theme gelernt. Die Bilder, die sich ΓΌber die gesamte Breite des Browserfensters ziehen,...
Ich arbeite seit gestern wieder. Ich habe ja meinen Urlaub abgebrochen, weil ich den fΓΌr den neuen Anlauf brauche. Urlaubstage sind halt eine sehr endliche...
Gestern war irgendwie ein blΓΆder Tag. Und das schmeichelt dem Tag doch sehr. Ich schrieb in meinem letzten Artikel ja, dass mein Knie gehalten hat. Nein, hat...
Eigentlich wollte ich heute schon unterwegs sein. Die ersten 60 Kilometer unterwegs sein. Eigentlich. Aber ich habe eine groΓe Dummheit begangen, von der ich...
Ich war in meinem Leben nicht wenig unterwegs. Aufgeregt bin ich trotzdem. War ich immer. Je weiter, desto aufgeregter. Morgen gehts los. Das, was da morgen...
Ich liege wieder frΓΌh wach. Es sind noch zwei Tage. Gestern habe ich es endlich geschafft, das Schutzblech ans Rad zu montieren. Ich muss an einer Stelle heute...
FahrrΓ€der β und die Teile, aus denen sie bestehen β haben einen Auslegungsparameter, der sich Systemgewicht nennt. Systemgewicht heiΓt so viel wie: βDie Teile...
Schutzbleche mΓΆgen vor Wasser und Schlamm schΓΌtzen, sie mΓΆgen vielleicht den Rahmen vor kleinen Steinchen schΓΌtzen, die vom Reifen weggeschleudert werden. Sie...
Die Wiederinbetriebnahme des Workflows, um etwas in dieses Blog zu bringen, hat gleich als Erstes mal wieder dazu gefΓΌhrt, dass ich den ersten Entwurf dieses...
It's well before 06:00 AM. I'm sitting on my indoor bike. Somewhat motivated by the last visit to my scale a day before. Thinking that a longer distance ride...
A few days ago. This is the number of kilometres I ran or cycled since 2019.  I tried to exactly hit 50000 β...
This is my first longer blog entry after getting back to a more frequent blogging schedule. It will be a two part blog entry. It may start with cycling,...
Of course I prefer to cycle outdoors. However when it's rather cold and dark when I usually start to cycle the motivation is significantly reduced. In such...
Today I wanted to ride to my parents in LΓΌneburg, it's not that far β just 40 km and there would be cake at my destination. However I had some problems with my...
*(Yes, I'm starting to blog again. About whatever crosses my mind. I will put some articles from time to time into my Jekyll for publication the next day at...
I'm a much better cyclist than a runner. However I often thought that spending calories by running is much more efficient than cycling. Thus I did the math to...
Yesterday I did my first long ride on my new bike. Either I got a lot fitter over the winter on the off-wheel trainer or my new bike is fast β I mean really...
The film "Kingsmen" is totally over the top, somehow still fun and you learn from it. For example what the hell brogues are. That you should know how a bulldog...
When I worked at Canbox many, many moons ago, the CEO sent a number of people to a training called "Leading without hierarchical power" or as I called it...
I'm getting a new bike soon. Of course you want to use a number of old components as well. A bike is pretty expensive right now as everyone prepares to evade...
Went through two milestones this weekend. Did my 4000th kilometre this year on my bike today. Was a week with three 100 km rides, this accelerated things a...
Implementing clean RSS, an archive page and fulltext search for c0t0d0s0.org
Helping you to find name service config errors quickly
How to create a copy of a ZFS filesystem with a different retention configuration
Protecting you from sending signals to all processes
Protecting boot environments from accidental deletion
Why newly created Solaris accounts cannot be accessed via SSH public key authentication and how SRU 87 improves the situation
Rescuing the environment.
A few NFS tools in Solaris 11 still used NFSv1. This has been changed.
Two small additions to the pgrep/pkill commands to limit the scope of both commands.
My personal approach of protecting the data on my home NAS with replicas instead of RAID.
A warm welcome to tachikoma. Using a UGREEN NASync 2800 with TrueNAS Scale and tips to get started with it.
How to simulate bad network conditions β up to TCP/IP over avian carriers
From time to time it's quite useful to appear to be an internet user for example from the US instead of Germany. Or in the UK. Of course there are services for...
I gave myself a Christmas present this year. I'm using a Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway (short USG ) for quite some time now and I thought it would be a good...
As I had quite a fight with a larger IKEA PAX closet for my bedroom, I hadn't quite the time to complete the ZFS retention article so far. Thus today a smaller...
Yet another small addition to Solaris 11.4. This one was released with SRU 57. `reboot`, `shutdown` and `poweroff` got a new option. With `-c` you can now...
I'm not allowed to watch games of the national team of Germany. Currently Germany is playing against Spain. Friends and family have forbidden me to watch the...
There is an important note in footnote 7 on page 40 of the ["Oracle and Sun System Software and Operating Systems - Oracle Lifetime Support...
It's well before 06:00 AM. I'm sitting on my indoor bike. Somewhat motivated by the last visit to my scale a day before. Thinking that a longer distance ride...
I'm currently sitting at my desk looking at a heap of cables. Display cables. You don't think too much about display cables. At least I did not think too much...
*(This is a test blog entry (based on a text I started a while ago) for the new Jekyll workflow)* Sometimes you see a device which results in a "Must-have"...
A few days ago. This is the number of kilometres I ran or cycled since 2019.  I tried to exactly hit 50000 β...
This is my first longer blog entry after getting back to a more frequent blogging schedule. It will be a two part blog entry. It may start with cycling,...
I'm vegan for a while. I'm not a health vegan, because it's perfectly possible to eat totally unhealthy as a vegan. I'm the living proof. I'm not really doing...
I'm currently trying to buy a security camera, because I have the suspicion that people are using my property as a shortcut. I had just one thought: There are...
I'm back from Koblenz. My brother asked me to help to fetch something from this town and as it was on a weekend and I'm on vacation the obvious answer was to...
My house has four Ubiquiti Unifi AP-AC-LR access points. For whatever reason, the construction of the house seems to attenuate WiFi signals significantly from...
Today I was quite occupied by a search mission: As absence of proof is not proof of absence, I was searching for things and I had no proof to myself that those...
I'm currently working on a longer blog entry about measuring systems performance, but this will take some additional days. Meanwhile I would like to point you...
I have seen and experienced a lot of things when driving on the Autobahn through Germany. I have seen quite a few crashes, smaller and larger ones. To this day...
I wrote this morning that my house has currently no VDSL internet, just cable internet. I'm just back from the street in front of my home. Roughly 50 m away...
As if the last few years didn't happen? Was at the supermarket this morning. People sneezing, people coughing, nobody wears a mask, even those people who are...
In case you wonder about my recent uptake in blog entries and in entries about recent purchases, this is at foremost currently getting back into the writing...
The example with the heating system is a better example than I thought. I learned some additional things over the course of the day. There are workarounds that...
Sometimes you may think that IT is the only business where workarounds are used. Today I was reminded that other businesses do the same and some even make...
It took me some more time to have this first part ready, because I revised it quite a lot and in the recent evenings I didn't want to spend the necessary time...
# A journey Many interesting journeys start with a first step. There are lessons in them and no matter how much you have seen in the past, you always learn new...
Of course I prefer to cycle outdoors. However when it's rather cold and dark when I usually start to cycle the motivation is significantly reduced. In such...
Diagnosing problems with computers has a lot to do with diagnosing illnesses (that's the reason why I'm working on an article about patching and vaccination...
Today I wanted to ride to my parents in LΓΌneburg, it's not that far β just 40 km and there would be cake at my destination. However I had some problems with my...
*(Yes, I'm starting to blog again. About whatever crosses my mind. I will put some articles from time to time into my Jekyll for publication the next day at...
Just saw the notification that Joerg Schilling, the creator of the cdrtools and Schillix (and many other tools), passed away this Sunday. He was one of the...
I'm a much better cyclist than a runner. However I often thought that spending calories by running is much more efficient than cycling. Thus I did the math to...
This is another blog entry in regard to ZFS and about what you have to keep in mind about it when working with ZFS . It's nothing really astonishing, you just...
Historic values are sometimes quite useful to have an overview of what's happened in the past on your system, but quite often it's only something you have to...
I had this discussion with a number of customers in the past, because it's one of the not so obvious consequences of the inner workings of ZFS , of how ZFS...
newtask is an important tool when you start applications in a different project context, for example for resource control purposes. Maybe you remember my...
Yesterday I did my first long ride on my new bike. Either I got a lot fitter over the winter on the off-wheel trainer or my new bike is fast β I mean really...
*(This blog entry was in the publication queue for a while, so Chris Beal overtook me with his great blog entry )* For a very long time there are some security...
One of the many enhancements to well-known tools like truss was the introduction of the option -G to said command. When you truss a command with -E it shows...
Most of the time when trussing a process you are not interested in all the system calls that are working perfectly and which are scrolling by at high speed....
SRU 31 of Oracle Solaris 11.4 has been published today. You will find more information about the changes here .
This is a rather small change in one of the Solaris 11.4 SRUs. SMF had so far three methods. You could have a start method, which is as the name says meant to...
The film "Kingsmen" is totally over the top, somehow still fun and you learn from it. For example what the hell brogues are. That you should know how a bulldog...
Even such venerable tools like useradd could use some extra features. In a recent SRU an option was added to set a default for how the home directory is...
Solaris 11.4 got a small extension to the iostat command. In a time when storage gets faster and faster, you may end up in a situation where the wsvc_t and...
This isn't an everyday tool, however for diagnosing problems gcore is one of the important tools in your toolbox. With gcore you can create a core image of...
Another extension to the svcbundle tool is the introduction of -s delay= and -s jitter= for periodic SMF services. If you have something to start in a periodic...
svcbundle is a really useful tool to create SMF manifests without having to hassle too much with XML. Most often you don't have to work with XML at all, but...
When I worked at Canbox many, many moons ago, the CEO sent a number of people to a training called "Leading without hierarchical power" or as I called it...
Short answer: The newest one you can get on the day you are reading this. The long answer: All the features I'm writing about in the last few days didn't...
With SRU 30 of Solaris 11.4, the zpool command got a new option for the status command. You can now get some additional information about the devices. This...
This feature introduced in Solaris 11 SRU 30 is really an interesting one. It's nothing you should really need often because usually ZFS will do the right...
In the past customers painted themselves into a corner when they did a rather large jump with their OS versions, upgraded their app as well, upgraded the zpool...
This is a nifty small feature. Tools like ps , df , du , ls , ps , size , prstat and swap now have the option --scale . This makes the output of those tools...
I'm getting a new bike soon. Of course you want to use a number of old components as well. A bike is pretty expensive right now as everyone prepares to evade...
There were more limits changed in regard to open files as well. The change took place in SRU27. * rlim_fd_cur has been increased from 256 pre-SRU27 to 4095...
In a relatively recent Solaris 11.4 SRU a limit was increased in its default setting. In 11.4 (no SRU ) the limit of open files for a user was 256. ```...
Went through two milestones this weekend. Did my 4000th kilometre this year on my bike today. Was a week with three 100 km rides, this accelerated things a...
A long time ago, I wrote about the /etc/system parameter user_reserve_hint_pct . It limits the size of the ZFS ARC cache by proxy by essentially limiting the...
And Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. As I integrated them into HomeKit via Homebridge, I had the problem with the Delock sockets with their custom firmware that I...
In Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU30 there was an important change with LDOMS you should be aware of as you probably have to do an administrative step to get best...
I got one question via Twitter: "What if there were a convenient way to run typical Unix commands in a sandbox? E.g. grep, awk, sed, etc. Could they work as...
You may know that I'm very interested in aviation, despite the fact that I had a quite severe case of "being totally afraid of flying" in the past . Or perhaps...
On Friday I wrote an article describing how I configured Telegraf to gather monitoring data from my Technische Alternative CMI . In this article I wrote that...
Darren Moffat just pointed to this in his Twitter feed about a package for Solaris that would make installation of this great tool really comfortable....
My heating system is controlled by a UVR1611 from Technische Alternative as I have to control a wood pellets heater and solar thermal collectors on the roof in...
Recently I had a customer with a problem: The customer configured an IPMP group with a number of additional IPs. They had a number of application servers...
Darren Moffat just wrote in the Solaris blog on blog.oracle.com about important news for Oracle Solaris 11.4: Solaris just got its Common Criteria...
I'm playing a lot with Telegraf recently in order to get a handle on monitoring an Exadata or the Oracle DB with it. As I don't have an Exadata at home, my...
I've decided to bring something back. 10 years ago I stopped blogging at a frequent schedule for various reasons. But still the content of that period is...
It's well before 06:00 AM. I'm sitting on my indoor bike. Somewhat motivated by the last visit to my scale a day before. Thinking that a longer distance ride...
I'm currently sitting at my desk looking at a heap of cables. Display cables. You don't think too much about display cables. At least I did not think too much...
*(This is a test blog entry (based on a text I started a while ago) for the new Jekyll workflow)* Sometimes you see a device which results in a "Must-have"...
Today I was quite occupied by a search mission: As absence of proof is not proof of absence, I was searching for things and I had no proof to myself that those...
In case you wonder about my recent uptake in blog entries and in entries about recent purchases, this is at foremost currently getting back into the writing...
Of course I prefer to cycle outdoors. However when it's rather cold and dark when I usually start to cycle the motivation is significantly reduced. In such...
Today I wanted to ride to my parents in LΓΌneburg, it's not that far β just 40 km and there would be cake at my destination. However I had some problems with my...
Yesterday I did my first long ride on my new bike. Either I got a lot fitter over the winter on the off-wheel trainer or my new bike is fast β I mean really...
So ... das ist dann nun die erste Nachricht in meinem Weblog ... sollen die Dinge kommen, die da sollen ... 
Armageddon aus dem Konzerthaus
Warum ich momentan auf das Blocken von KI-Crawlern verzichte.
Das Pazifismusparadox und die diesem innewohnende Tragik
Die heilende Behandlung im Anschluss in der Anschlussheilbehandlung
Von Schlafpositionen und gezogenen Kabeln
Von Isolation und dem Mangel an Rhythmus
Von Schmerzen, ersten Erfolgen und wirren Bildern
Von den Tagen rund um die OP und fehlenden Erinnerungen
Γber eine Stimme von der Grenze und dem Survivorship Bias in der Praxis
Vorbereitungen zur OP und dΓΌstere Gedanken
Teufelkreise, Stofftiere und Unvermeidbarkeit
Anderes Leben und haessliche Schlafanzuege
Koblenz und die Zufallsdiagnose
Γber LΓ€rm und Enge, bildgebende Magnete und ΓΌber Briefe, die den Lauf des Lebens verΓ€ndern
Γber einen Brief, meinen Urlaub und zerstΓΆrte PlΓ€ne
Als ich gestern auf meinem Garmin die Fahrt beendet habe, habe ich fΓΌr mich ganz persΓΆnlich erst einmal ein Mikrophon gedanklich fallen gelassen. Ja, um es...
Auch heute war wieder eine Γberquerung der A7 der Punkt, an dem ich umgedreht bin. So irgendwie die Elbe ΓΆstlich von Lauenburg ein gefΓΌhltes Hindernis ist, so...
Wie groΓ ist eigentlich der Unterschied zwischen E-Bike-Fahren und Rennradfahren? Erstaunlich gering, wie ich finde. Ich habe mit deutlich mehr gerechnet. Ich...
Verdammt noch mal, es ist Mitte Juni. Nur hat dieses Jahr das noch nicht bemerkt. Eigentlich sollte es warm sein. Zumindest ein bisschen. # Handbekleidung Ich...
Ich bin heute das erste Mal seit lΓ€ngerer Zeit wieder mit Musik auf den Ohren gefahren. Ich habe eine Sonnenbrille, die gleichzeitig ein Bluetooth-KopfhΓΆrer...
Ich habe durch die ersten BlogeintrΓ€ge hier einiges ΓΌber das neue Theme gelernt. Die Bilder, die sich ΓΌber die gesamte Breite des Browserfensters ziehen,...
Ich arbeite seit gestern wieder. Ich habe ja meinen Urlaub abgebrochen, weil ich den fΓΌr den neuen Anlauf brauche. Urlaubstage sind halt eine sehr endliche...
Gestern war irgendwie ein blΓΆder Tag. Und das schmeichelt dem Tag doch sehr. Ich schrieb in meinem letzten Artikel ja, dass mein Knie gehalten hat. Nein, hat...
Eigentlich wollte ich heute schon unterwegs sein. Die ersten 60 Kilometer unterwegs sein. Eigentlich. Aber ich habe eine groΓe Dummheit begangen, von der ich...
Ich war in meinem Leben nicht wenig unterwegs. Aufgeregt bin ich trotzdem. War ich immer. Je weiter, desto aufgeregter. Morgen gehts los. Das, was da morgen...
Ich liege wieder frΓΌh wach. Es sind noch zwei Tage. Gestern habe ich es endlich geschafft, das Schutzblech ans Rad zu montieren. Ich muss an einer Stelle heute...
FahrrΓ€der β und die Teile, aus denen sie bestehen β haben einen Auslegungsparameter, der sich Systemgewicht nennt. Systemgewicht heiΓt so viel wie: βDie Teile...
Schutzbleche mΓΆgen vor Wasser und Schlamm schΓΌtzen, sie mΓΆgen vielleicht den Rahmen vor kleinen Steinchen schΓΌtzen, die vom Reifen weggeschleudert werden. Sie...
Die Wiederinbetriebnahme des Workflows, um etwas in dieses Blog zu bringen, hat gleich als Erstes mal wieder dazu gefΓΌhrt, dass ich den ersten Entwurf dieses...
Als ich gestern auf meinem Garmin die Fahrt beendet habe, habe ich fΓΌr mich ganz persΓΆnlich erst einmal ein Mikrophon gedanklich fallen gelassen. Ja, um es...
Verdammt noch mal, es ist Mitte Juni. Nur hat dieses Jahr das noch nicht bemerkt. Eigentlich sollte es warm sein. Zumindest ein bisschen. # Handbekleidung Ich...
Armageddon aus dem Konzerthaus
I'm vegan for a while. I'm not a health vegan, because it's perfectly possible to eat totally unhealthy as a vegan. I'm the living proof. I'm not really doing...
As if the last few years didn't happen? Was at the supermarket this morning. People sneezing, people coughing, nobody wears a mask, even those people who are...
So ... das ist dann nun die erste Nachricht in meinem Weblog ... sollen die Dinge kommen, die da sollen ... 
And Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. As I integrated them into HomeKit via Homebridge, I had the problem with the Delock sockets with their custom firmware that I...
On Friday I wrote an article describing how I configured Telegraf to gather monitoring data from my Technische Alternative CMI . In this article I wrote that...
My heating system is controlled by a UVR1611 from Technische Alternative as I have to control a wood pellets heater and solar thermal collectors on the roof in...
I'm playing a lot with Telegraf recently in order to get a handle on monitoring an Exadata or the Oracle DB with it. As I don't have an Exadata at home, my...
The house I'm living in is quite strange in regard to WLAN reception. It's a house for four families that I own. It has four floors (including cellar and roof)...
My personal approach of protecting the data on my home NAS with replicas instead of RAID.
A warm welcome to tachikoma. Using a UGREEN NASync 2800 with TrueNAS Scale and tips to get started with it.
I'm currently trying to buy a security camera, because I have the suspicion that people are using my property as a shortcut. I had just one thought: There are...
My house has four Ubiquiti Unifi AP-AC-LR access points. For whatever reason, the construction of the house seems to attenuate WiFi signals significantly from...
I wrote this morning that my house has currently no VDSL internet, just cable internet. I'm just back from the street in front of my home. Roughly 50 m away...
From time to time it's quite useful to appear to be an internet user for example from the US instead of Germany. Or in the UK. Of course there are services for...
I gave myself a Christmas present this year. I'm using a Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway (short USG ) for quite some time now and I thought it would be a good...
Eigentlich wollte ich heute schon unterwegs sein. Die ersten 60 Kilometer unterwegs sein. Eigentlich. Aber ich habe eine groΓe Dummheit begangen, von der ich...
I'm currently sitting at my desk looking at a heap of cables. Display cables. You don't think too much about display cables. At least I did not think too much...
*(This is a test blog entry (based on a text I started a while ago) for the new Jekyll workflow)* Sometimes you see a device which results in a "Must-have"...
This is my first longer blog entry after getting back to a more frequent blogging schedule. It will be a two part blog entry. It may start with cycling,...
I'm currently trying to buy a security camera, because I have the suspicion that people are using my property as a shortcut. I had just one thought: There are...
My house has four Ubiquiti Unifi AP-AC-LR access points. For whatever reason, the construction of the house seems to attenuate WiFi signals significantly from...
Today I was quite occupied by a search mission: As absence of proof is not proof of absence, I was searching for things and I had no proof to myself that those...
I wrote this morning that my house has currently no VDSL internet, just cable internet. I'm just back from the street in front of my home. Roughly 50 m away...
The example with the heating system is a better example than I thought. I learned some additional things over the course of the day. There are workarounds that...
Sometimes you may think that IT is the only business where workarounds are used. Today I was reminded that other businesses do the same and some even make...
It took me some more time to have this first part ready, because I revised it quite a lot and in the recent evenings I didn't want to spend the necessary time...
# A journey Many interesting journeys start with a first step. There are lessons in them and no matter how much you have seen in the past, you always learn new...
Implementing clean RSS, an archive page and fulltext search for c0t0d0s0.org
Warum ich momentan auf das Blocken von KI-Crawlern verzichte.
In Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU30 there was an important change with LDOMS you should be aware of as you probably have to do an administrative step to get best...
My personal approach of protecting the data on my home NAS with replicas instead of RAID.
I'm currently sitting at my desk looking at a heap of cables. Display cables. You don't think too much about display cables. At least I did not think too much...
This is my first longer blog entry after getting back to a more frequent blogging schedule. It will be a two part blog entry. It may start with cycling,...
The example with the heating system is a better example than I thought. I learned some additional things over the course of the day. There are workarounds that...
Sometimes you may think that IT is the only business where workarounds are used. Today I was reminded that other businesses do the same and some even make...
It took me some more time to have this first part ready, because I revised it quite a lot and in the recent evenings I didn't want to spend the necessary time...
# A journey Many interesting journeys start with a first step. There are lessons in them and no matter how much you have seen in the past, you always learn new...
Diagnosing problems with computers has a lot to do with diagnosing illnesses (that's the reason why I'm working on an article about patching and vaccination...
*(Yes, I'm starting to blog again. About whatever crosses my mind. I will put some articles from time to time into my Jekyll for publication the next day at...
I'm vegan for a while. I'm not a health vegan, because it's perfectly possible to eat totally unhealthy as a vegan. I'm the living proof. I'm not really doing...
As if the last few years didn't happen? Was at the supermarket this morning. People sneezing, people coughing, nobody wears a mask, even those people who are...
A warm welcome to tachikoma. Using a UGREEN NASync 2800 with TrueNAS Scale and tips to get started with it.
And Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. As I integrated them into HomeKit via Homebridge, I had the problem with the Delock sockets with their custom firmware that I...
On Friday I wrote an article describing how I configured Telegraf to gather monitoring data from my Technische Alternative CMI . In this article I wrote that...
Historic values are sometimes quite useful to have an overview of what's happened in the past on your system, but quite often it's only something you have to...
*(This blog entry was in the publication queue for a while, so Chris Beal overtook me with his great blog entry )* For a very long time there are some security...
Solaris 11.4 got a small extension to the iostat command. In a time when storage gets faster and faster, you may end up in a situation where the wsvc_t and...
You may know that I'm very interested in aviation, despite the fact that I had a quite severe case of "being totally afraid of flying" in the past . Or perhaps...
On Friday I wrote an article describing how I configured Telegraf to gather monitoring data from my Technische Alternative CMI . In this article I wrote that...
I'm playing a lot with Telegraf recently in order to get a handle on monitoring an Exadata or the Oracle DB with it. As I don't have an Exadata at home, my...
Als ich gestern auf meinem Garmin die Fahrt beendet habe, habe ich fΓΌr mich ganz persΓΆnlich erst einmal ein Mikrophon gedanklich fallen gelassen. Ja, um es...
My personal approach of protecting the data on my home NAS with replicas instead of RAID.
Helping you to find name service config errors quickly
How to simulate bad network conditions β up to TCP/IP over avian carriers
From time to time it's quite useful to appear to be an internet user for example from the US instead of Germany. Or in the UK. Of course there are services for...
I gave myself a Christmas present this year. I'm using a Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway (short USG ) for quite some time now and I thought it would be a good...
I'm currently trying to buy a security camera, because I have the suspicion that people are using my property as a shortcut. I had just one thought: There are...
My house has four Ubiquiti Unifi AP-AC-LR access points. For whatever reason, the construction of the house seems to attenuate WiFi signals significantly from...
I wrote this morning that my house has currently no VDSL internet, just cable internet. I'm just back from the street in front of my home. Roughly 50 m away...
Diagnosing problems with computers has a lot to do with diagnosing illnesses (that's the reason why I'm working on an article about patching and vaccination...
This is my first longer blog entry after getting back to a more frequent blogging schedule. It will be a two part blog entry. It may start with cycling,...
The example with the heating system is a better example than I thought. I learned some additional things over the course of the day. There are workarounds that...
Sometimes you may think that IT is the only business where workarounds are used. Today I was reminded that other businesses do the same and some even make...
It took me some more time to have this first part ready, because I revised it quite a lot and in the recent evenings I didn't want to spend the necessary time...
# A journey Many interesting journeys start with a first step. There are lessons in them and no matter how much you have seen in the past, you always learn new...
Diagnosing problems with computers has a lot to do with diagnosing illnesses (that's the reason why I'm working on an article about patching and vaccination...
As I had quite a fight with a larger IKEA PAX closet for my bedroom, I hadn't quite the time to complete the ZFS retention article so far. Thus today a smaller...
This is my first longer blog entry after getting back to a more frequent blogging schedule. It will be a two part blog entry. It may start with cycling,...
It took me some more time to have this first part ready, because I revised it quite a lot and in the recent evenings I didn't want to spend the necessary time...
# A journey Many interesting journeys start with a first step. There are lessons in them and no matter how much you have seen in the past, you always learn new...
This is another blog entry in regard to ZFS and about what you have to keep in mind about it when working with ZFS . It's nothing really astonishing, you just...
I had this discussion with a number of customers in the past, because it's one of the not so obvious consequences of the inner workings of ZFS , of how ZFS...
One of the many enhancements to well-known tools like truss was the introduction of the option -G to said command. When you truss a command with -E it shows...
Solaris 11.4 got a small extension to the iostat command. In a time when storage gets faster and faster, you may end up in a situation where the wsvc_t and...
This isn't an everyday tool, however for diagnosing problems gcore is one of the important tools in your toolbox. With gcore you can create a core image of...
There were more limits changed in regard to open files as well. The change took place in SRU27. * rlim_fd_cur has been increased from 256 pre-SRU27 to 4095...
A long time ago, I wrote about the /etc/system parameter user_reserve_hint_pct . It limits the size of the ZFS ARC cache by proxy by essentially limiting the...
In Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU30 there was an important change with LDOMS you should be aware of as you probably have to do an administrative step to get best...
You may know that I'm very interested in aviation, despite the fact that I had a quite severe case of "being totally afraid of flying" in the past . Or perhaps...
I'm currently working on a longer blog entry about measuring systems performance, but this will take some additional days. Meanwhile I would like to point you...
In case you wonder about my recent uptake in blog entries and in entries about recent purchases, this is at foremost currently getting back into the writing...
How to create a copy of a ZFS filesystem with a different retention configuration
Helping you to find name service config errors quickly
Rescuing the environment.
This is a rather small change in one of the Solaris 11.4 SRUs. SMF had so far three methods. You could have a start method, which is as the name says meant to...
Another extension to the svcbundle tool is the introduction of -s delay= and -s jitter= for periodic SMF services. If you have something to start in a periodic...
svcbundle is a really useful tool to create SMF manifests without having to hassle too much with XML. Most often you don't have to work with XML at all, but...
Helping you to find name service config errors quickly
How to create a copy of a ZFS filesystem with a different retention configuration
Protecting you from sending signals to all processes
Protecting boot environments from accidental deletion
I'm currently trying to buy a security camera, because I have the suspicion that people are using my property as a shortcut. I had just one thought: There are...
I got one question via Twitter: "What if there were a convenient way to run typical Unix commands in a sandbox? E.g. grep, awk, sed, etc. Could they work as...
And Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. As I integrated them into HomeKit via Homebridge, I had the problem with the Delock sockets with their custom firmware that I...
On Friday I wrote an article describing how I configured Telegraf to gather monitoring data from my Technische Alternative CMI . In this article I wrote that...
My heating system is controlled by a UVR1611 from Technische Alternative as I have to control a wood pellets heater and solar thermal collectors on the roof in...
I'm playing a lot with Telegraf recently in order to get a handle on monitoring an Exadata or the Oracle DB with it. As I don't have an Exadata at home, my...
The house I'm living in is quite strange in regard to WLAN reception. It's a house for four families that I own. It has four floors (including cellar and roof)...
Helping you to find name service config errors quickly
How to create a copy of a ZFS filesystem with a different retention configuration
Protecting you from sending signals to all processes
Protecting boot environments from accidental deletion
Why newly created Solaris accounts cannot be accessed via SSH public key authentication and how SRU 87 improves the situation
Rescuing the environment.
A few NFS tools in Solaris 11 still used NFSv1. This has been changed.
Two small additions to the pgrep/pkill commands to limit the scope of both commands.
How to simulate bad network conditions β up to TCP/IP over avian carriers
As I had quite a fight with a larger IKEA PAX closet for my bedroom, I hadn't quite the time to complete the ZFS retention article so far. Thus today a smaller...
Yet another small addition to Solaris 11.4. This one was released with SRU 57. `reboot`, `shutdown` and `poweroff` got a new option. With `-c` you can now...
I'm not allowed to watch games of the national team of Germany. Currently Germany is playing against Spain. Friends and family have forbidden me to watch the...
There is an important note in footnote 7 on page 40 of the ["Oracle and Sun System Software and Operating Systems - Oracle Lifetime Support...
# A journey Many interesting journeys start with a first step. There are lessons in them and no matter how much you have seen in the past, you always learn new...
Just saw the notification that Joerg Schilling, the creator of the cdrtools and Schillix (and many other tools), passed away this Sunday. He was one of the...
This is another blog entry in regard to ZFS and about what you have to keep in mind about it when working with ZFS . It's nothing really astonishing, you just...
Historic values are sometimes quite useful to have an overview of what's happened in the past on your system, but quite often it's only something you have to...
I had this discussion with a number of customers in the past, because it's one of the not so obvious consequences of the inner workings of ZFS , of how ZFS...
newtask is an important tool when you start applications in a different project context, for example for resource control purposes. Maybe you remember my...
*(This blog entry was in the publication queue for a while, so Chris Beal overtook me with his great blog entry )* For a very long time there are some security...
One of the many enhancements to well-known tools like truss was the introduction of the option -G to said command. When you truss a command with -E it shows...
Most of the time when trussing a process you are not interested in all the system calls that are working perfectly and which are scrolling by at high speed....
SRU 31 of Oracle Solaris 11.4 has been published today. You will find more information about the changes here .
This is a rather small change in one of the Solaris 11.4 SRUs. SMF had so far three methods. You could have a start method, which is as the name says meant to...
Even such venerable tools like useradd could use some extra features. In a recent SRU an option was added to set a default for how the home directory is...
Solaris 11.4 got a small extension to the iostat command. In a time when storage gets faster and faster, you may end up in a situation where the wsvc_t and...
This isn't an everyday tool, however for diagnosing problems gcore is one of the important tools in your toolbox. With gcore you can create a core image of...
Another extension to the svcbundle tool is the introduction of -s delay= and -s jitter= for periodic SMF services. If you have something to start in a periodic...
svcbundle is a really useful tool to create SMF manifests without having to hassle too much with XML. Most often you don't have to work with XML at all, but...
Short answer: The newest one you can get on the day you are reading this. The long answer: All the features I'm writing about in the last few days didn't...
With SRU 30 of Solaris 11.4, the zpool command got a new option for the status command. You can now get some additional information about the devices. This...
This feature introduced in Solaris 11 SRU 30 is really an interesting one. It's nothing you should really need often because usually ZFS will do the right...
In the past customers painted themselves into a corner when they did a rather large jump with their OS versions, upgraded their app as well, upgraded the zpool...
This is a nifty small feature. Tools like ps , df , du , ls , ps , size , prstat and swap now have the option --scale . This makes the output of those tools...
There were more limits changed in regard to open files as well. The change took place in SRU27. * rlim_fd_cur has been increased from 256 pre-SRU27 to 4095...
In a relatively recent Solaris 11.4 SRU a limit was increased in its default setting. In 11.4 (no SRU ) the limit of open files for a user was 256. ```...
A long time ago, I wrote about the /etc/system parameter user_reserve_hint_pct . It limits the size of the ZFS ARC cache by proxy by essentially limiting the...
In Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU30 there was an important change with LDOMS you should be aware of as you probably have to do an administrative step to get best...
I got one question via Twitter: "What if there were a convenient way to run typical Unix commands in a sandbox? E.g. grep, awk, sed, etc. Could they work as...
Darren Moffat just pointed to this in his Twitter feed about a package for Solaris that would make installation of this great tool really comfortable....
Recently I had a customer with a problem: The customer configured an IPMP group with a number of additional IPs. They had a number of application servers...
Darren Moffat just wrote in the Solaris blog on blog.oracle.com about important news for Oracle Solaris 11.4: Solaris just got its Common Criteria...
Helping you to find name service config errors quickly
How to create a copy of a ZFS filesystem with a different retention configuration
Protecting you from sending signals to all processes
Protecting boot environments from accidental deletion
Implementing clean RSS, an archive page and fulltext search for c0t0d0s0.org
I'm currently working on a longer blog entry about measuring systems performance, but this will take some additional days. Meanwhile I would like to point you...
And Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. As I integrated them into HomeKit via Homebridge, I had the problem with the Delock sockets with their custom firmware that I...
You may know that I'm very interested in aviation, despite the fact that I had a quite severe case of "being totally afraid of flying" in the past . Or perhaps...
On Friday I wrote an article describing how I configured Telegraf to gather monitoring data from my Technische Alternative CMI . In this article I wrote that...
Die heilende Behandlung im Anschluss in der Anschlussheilbehandlung
Von Schlafpositionen und gezogenen Kabeln
Von Isolation und dem Mangel an Rhythmus
Von Schmerzen, ersten Erfolgen und wirren Bildern
Von den Tagen rund um die OP und fehlenden Erinnerungen
Γber eine Stimme von der Grenze und dem Survivorship Bias in der Praxis
Vorbereitungen zur OP und dΓΌstere Gedanken
Teufelkreise, Stofftiere und Unvermeidbarkeit
Anderes Leben und haessliche Schlafanzuege
Koblenz und die Zufallsdiagnose
Γber LΓ€rm und Enge, bildgebende Magnete und ΓΌber Briefe, die den Lauf des Lebens verΓ€ndern
Γber einen Brief, meinen Urlaub und zerstΓΆrte PlΓ€ne
Armageddon aus dem Konzerthaus
Warum ich momentan auf das Blocken von KI-Crawlern verzichte.
Das Pazifismusparadox und die diesem innewohnende Tragik
I'm back from Koblenz. My brother asked me to help to fetch something from this town and as it was on a weekend and I'm on vacation the obvious answer was to...
I have seen and experienced a lot of things when driving on the Autobahn through Germany. I have seen quite a few crashes, smaller and larger ones. To this day...
My personal approach of protecting the data on my home NAS with replicas instead of RAID.
A warm welcome to tachikoma. Using a UGREEN NASync 2800 with TrueNAS Scale and tips to get started with it.
From time to time it's quite useful to appear to be an internet user for example from the US instead of Germany. Or in the UK. Of course there are services for...
I gave myself a Christmas present this year. I'm using a Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway (short USG ) for quite some time now and I thought it would be a good...
I'm currently trying to buy a security camera, because I have the suspicion that people are using my property as a shortcut. I had just one thought: There are...
My house has four Ubiquiti Unifi AP-AC-LR access points. For whatever reason, the construction of the house seems to attenuate WiFi signals significantly from...
Implementing clean RSS, an archive page and fulltext search for c0t0d0s0.org
Ich arbeite seit gestern wieder. Ich habe ja meinen Urlaub abgebrochen, weil ich den fΓΌr den neuen Anlauf brauche. Urlaubstage sind halt eine sehr endliche...
Gestern war irgendwie ein blΓΆder Tag. Und das schmeichelt dem Tag doch sehr. Ich schrieb in meinem letzten Artikel ja, dass mein Knie gehalten hat. Nein, hat...
Eigentlich wollte ich heute schon unterwegs sein. Die ersten 60 Kilometer unterwegs sein. Eigentlich. Aber ich habe eine groΓe Dummheit begangen, von der ich...
Ich war in meinem Leben nicht wenig unterwegs. Aufgeregt bin ich trotzdem. War ich immer. Je weiter, desto aufgeregter. Morgen gehts los. Das, was da morgen...
Ich liege wieder frΓΌh wach. Es sind noch zwei Tage. Gestern habe ich es endlich geschafft, das Schutzblech ans Rad zu montieren. Ich muss an einer Stelle heute...
FahrrΓ€der β und die Teile, aus denen sie bestehen β haben einen Auslegungsparameter, der sich Systemgewicht nennt. Systemgewicht heiΓt so viel wie: βDie Teile...
Schutzbleche mΓΆgen vor Wasser und Schlamm schΓΌtzen, sie mΓΆgen vielleicht den Rahmen vor kleinen Steinchen schΓΌtzen, die vom Reifen weggeschleudert werden. Sie...
Die Wiederinbetriebnahme des Workflows, um etwas in dieses Blog zu bringen, hat gleich als Erstes mal wieder dazu gefΓΌhrt, dass ich den ersten Entwurf dieses...
The house I'm living in is quite strange in regard to WLAN reception. It's a house for four families that I own. It has four floors (including cellar and roof)...
How to create a copy of a ZFS filesystem with a different retention configuration
Protecting boot environments from accidental deletion
My personal approach of protecting the data on my home NAS with replicas instead of RAID.
As I had quite a fight with a larger IKEA PAX closet for my bedroom, I hadn't quite the time to complete the ZFS retention article so far. Thus today a smaller...
This is another blog entry in regard to ZFS and about what you have to keep in mind about it when working with ZFS . It's nothing really astonishing, you just...
I had this discussion with a number of customers in the past, because it's one of the not so obvious consequences of the inner workings of ZFS , of how ZFS...
*(This blog entry was in the publication queue for a while, so Chris Beal overtook me with his great blog entry )* For a very long time there are some security...
Even such venerable tools like useradd could use some extra features. In a recent SRU an option was added to set a default for how the home directory is...
With SRU 30 of Solaris 11.4, the zpool command got a new option for the status command. You can now get some additional information about the devices. This...
This feature introduced in Solaris 11 SRU 30 is really an interesting one. It's nothing you should really need often because usually ZFS will do the right...
In the past customers painted themselves into a corner when they did a rather large jump with their OS versions, upgraded their app as well, upgraded the zpool...
A long time ago, I wrote about the /etc/system parameter user_reserve_hint_pct . It limits the size of the ZFS ARC cache by proxy by essentially limiting the...
The house I'm living in is quite strange in regard to WLAN reception. It's a house for four families that I own. It has four floors (including cellar and roof)...
Protecting boot environments from accidental deletion
Ich bin heute das erste Mal seit lΓ€ngerer Zeit wieder mit Musik auf den Ohren gefahren. Ich habe eine Sonnenbrille, die gleichzeitig ein Bluetooth-KopfhΓΆrer...
Ich habe durch die ersten BlogeintrΓ€ge hier einiges ΓΌber das neue Theme gelernt. Die Bilder, die sich ΓΌber die gesamte Breite des Browserfensters ziehen,...
Just saw the notification that Joerg Schilling, the creator of the cdrtools and Schillix (and many other tools), passed away this Sunday. He was one of the...
Rescuing the environment.