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2005-05-14 Hard Drive Upgrade
Installed Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 (6Y120L0) and reinstalled OS. Based on the date this was likely FreeBSD 5.3.
2007-07-12 6.2-RELEASE-p5
Added serial console for easier management. Performed source upgrade from 6.1 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5. Not sure when the upgrade was done from 5.3 to 6.1 or how many increments were in between. Such details are lost to history.
2008-02-18 Hard Drive Upgrade
Previous hard drive Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 (6Y120L0) serial: Y35AK8PE was quickly failing. Added Promise SATA300 TX4 4-port SATA II PCI controller card and Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 3Gb/s NCQ 750GB 32MB Cache (ST3750330AS)
During the upgrade, updated the system from FreeBSD 6.2 to FreeBSD 7.0 RC2.
Technical Notes
SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983
- smartctl -l selftest /dev/ad0
- smartctl -t long /dev/ad0
- smartctl -Hc /dev/ad0
Disk image via dd
dd bs=512 if=/dev/rXX# of=/some_dir/foo.dmg conv=noerror,sync
tar over netcat
- nc -v -v -w 40 -l -p 8888 > foo.tar
- tar cjvf * | nc remotehost 8888
Updating root DNS
dig @a.root-servers.net . ns > /etc/namedb/named.root
Portupgrade
Rebuild Package and all dependent packages
portupgrade -rfx openssl openssl
Disable Vulnerability Checking
DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes
Qmail log Timestamps
Can be converted to human readable using the tai64nlocal command.