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title = "cli add"
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I have not updated [cli.donharper.org - forget the GUI](https://www.duckland.org/) in a very long time, and I did have some nice tricks and tips there, so I decided to bring it over here.
***Edit 2020-04-07**: I merged the content of cli.donharper.org into my main site a long time ago.*
Enjoy.

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date = "2014-01-08T17:01:00-07:00"
title = "Tale of Installs, Part 2"
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Well, as I [mentioned before \<tale-of-install\>]{role="doc"}, I was
trying to install OpenBSD. Well, my main workstation died, so I have to
re-purposed the OpenBSD box as my workstation running
[ArchLinux](https://www.archlinux.org). I am hunting for a suitable
replacement.
Oh, and Happy New Year!

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**EDIT 2019-06-22:** It seems that sometime in the last 5 years, this went away. Oh, well.

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date = "2014-03-12T04:03:05-07:00"
title = "Back to FreeBSD aka Day 1"
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So, a long time ago, I had a box which was running FreeBSD 4, running on a Pentium. This housed my public server, website, and mail server. After I while, I had to rebuild it, and went back to Linux.
14 years later, I have decided to get back into FreeBSD, now at FreeBSD 10. I have it running headless on two boxes, and I have decided to take the '30 Day Challenge'. You know, all the bloggers tell you to try something for 30 days before you give up on it.
I am going to try to give FreeBSD a go as my daily driver for 30 (or so) days. I cannot do this full time, as I so Linux support in my day job, so I cannot change over the work laptop (yet). I have installed [PCBSD-10](https://www.pcbsd.org) on one of my spare laptops. Why PCBSD and not pure FreeBSD? Well, I do not know enough yet to get past UEFI boot and the NVidia/Intel dual graphics, so I cheated. I imagine that I before the end, I will either reload this laptop or start from scratch on my current daily personal driver.
So, most of my cli tools came over very cleanly, with the exception of abook. On Linux, I track the git repo, and the version in the ports tree is a bit older, so I will need to either compile it from git, or change my config to use the older version. But the rest, mutt, tmux, newsbeauter, irssi, and such, all work out of the box.
In the X department, PCBSD has my current favorite window-manager, i3, so that is all good. The only issue I hit is the version of firefox in the PCBSD port tree is broken, and I am going to stay away from the PBI as much as I can. I feel that PBI are too much like installing something under windows, i.e. install the app, and all the libraries it needs to run. In my option, a waste of space, and un-patched libraries on my system. Thank you, I will pass. I ended up enabling the normal FreeBSD ports tree to install it.
I have ported most of my custom scripts over. Most of the work is in the fact that bash lives somewhere different (/usr/local/bin vs /bin). There are a few commands either missing or I have not installed them yet, and a couple of core commands have very different syntax.
I figure for most of what I do, this will be very easy to switch over, but the main area I am unsure of at this point is in photo editing and photo management. I use a commercial Linux package, and I will need to figure out how to make it work under the Linux compatibility layer.
I do not promise daily updates, but I will try to keep a journal of my progress.

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title = "FreeBSD Challenge, Day 12-15"
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Half-way point.
Much progress made in the world of a bootable USB stick to get my new-fangled WiFi chip working. I was able to make a new image, wrote it to a new USB stick, booted it, and was able to successfully scan for my Access Points! W00t!
Tomorrow, I will take the second laptop (HP EliteBook Revolve 810), and load it with 10-Release (slightly patched). I do not expect everything to work (it has a touch screen), but enough should work that I can start using it for the daily driver. Having real wifi will help a lot.
My updates have been a bit slow due to craziness at work. I am taking a trip, and the departure date has been reset many times. I am on my 5th set of airline tickets. With things settled, I need to decide if I am going to bring the second laptop (the R180) with me or not. Weight issues and all.
How do I think this is going? Well, the two major issues I thought I would have going in, WiFi and Photo editing/management, are for the most part solved. Can I use this for my daily non-work driver? Yes. Can I use it for my work daily driver? Maybe. I have set up a few jails on the FreeNAS box (btsync, dns/dhcp, [taskwarrior's taskd](https://gothenburgbitfactory.github.io/taskserver-setup/), and Plex), and they are mainly working well together (the Plex will not play nice with btsync, yet), but I need to figure out a bit more, and set it up as a target to backup my laptop's ZFS snapshots.
Next steps are to find those performance monitoring tools/docs, and to look at something like puppet/chef/salt.
Thanks for reading....

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title = "FreeBSD Challenge, Day 16"
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Busy day with other things than play computers, but I found a little time. I have FreeBSD 10-STABLE loaded with the custom WiFi hack on my [Elitebook Revolve 810](https://notebookplanet.blogspot.com/2013/04/hp-elitebook-revolve-810-g1-tablet.html) . I would have to let it try to boot off the USB stick. After multiple tries, it would finally run the installer. I tried ZFS a few times, but if I did not select MBR format for the partition table, then it would not boot (no OS error). With MBR and ZFS, it would fail to mount the ZFS filesystem with \<strong\>error 2\</strong\>. After trying the various fixes listed on-line, I gave up and went with MBR and UFS.
Once installed, it was fairly easy to get going. I have not configured it to take on the role of daily driver yet. If I have time tomorrow, then I will do it then, otherwise, it will have to wait a bit as I am getting on a plane this weekend, and I will not have room for the second computer. I will try to get it as far as I can with ssh.
The neat thing I found based on [this email post from 2005](https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-April/083317.html) and this blog post (was at freebsdonline.com/content/view/829/524/) is that I can have a fancy screensaver at the console! Pretty rad. :) Next steps will be improving the screen resolution in text-mode.\</body\>\</html\>

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title = "FreeBSD Challenge, Day 2"
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Just a quick update. Yesterday, I got abook working. Kind of a hack, though. I used gcc to compile it, vs. clang. I will have to revisit this and offer up some patches to the abook project.
I have also been playing with **x11/xpra** which bills itself as \'screen for X11\'. That, combined with [sshuttle](https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle) , lets me get in from work and do some work during lunch. It may also give me a tempory way to use [AfterShotPro](https://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4670071&amp;cid=catalog20038&amp;segid=6000006) until I get the whole Linux compatability layer thing figured out.
Next up is learing how to use *ports(7)* working to be able to install **10-STABLE** while the host is **10-RELEASE**.
Yes, my issues are not normal. :)

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No major work on the laptop today because I set up a FreeNAS box. I was able to get 4 x 3T drives, and set it up. Pretty easy. I am now busy moving my media over to it.

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Sorry...busy time at work and with the family.
Small updates: I have the external VGA dongle working. No config needed, just plug it in and it works. I really need to fix the WiFi so I can stop using the USB dongle on it. Also, I have updated mutt to 1.5.23, and that upgrade went smoothly. Since I am not using the default build, it was a matter of *portsnap fetch && portsnap update && cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt && pkg remove mutt && make install clean* and all is good!
My biggest update is that I got AfterShotPro working! It as a simple as reading the pages in the [manual](https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu-lbc-install.html), and changing the path to bash in the launcher script, and all is good! I should really look into what it takes to make a port so when I set up the next few computers, I will not have to do this by hand again.
Next thing to figure out is how to get the sound to come out of my headphones instead of the speakers. Since I did not have to do anything to get sound, I figure this is just a bit of RTFM\'ing on my part.

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title = "FreeBSD Challenge, Day 7"
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AKA Fight with Thunderbird and Lightning.
I broke down and installed a PBI for now. I could not get Lightning, the calendaring AddOn for Thunderbird to work using the native FreeBSD pkg or the linux-thunderbird one. The linux-thunderbird package actually refused to start for me. I need to go figure out how to generate a PR.
The other thing I am playing with is building a memstick image after patching the kernel using this [post](https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=35467) in the FreeBSD Forums. This is for the **Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 WiFi Driver** which I have in all my laptops. The data wants to be free! from wires. Since it is chunking away, I will test tomorrow.

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date = "2014-03-19T18:03:12-07:00"
title = "FreeBSD Challenge, Day 8"
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Again, work is dragging, so not much to update.
I have install btsync and I am now syncing home dirs between the laptop, desktop, and the FreeNAS.
My attempt to build a custom kernel to deal with the new WiFi was mixed. I was able to build the kernel and world just fine and it made a USB image for me. But, it would not boot\...I do need to figure out how to debug this. :)

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title = "FreeBSD Challenge, Day 9-11"
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Ah, life with kids...not enough spare time with soccer and volleyball practices and games.
Things are going well. Found a few more small utilities that I use under Linux and added them via pkgng, and all is good.
Next up: system debugging. The system will slow down at random points, so I need to go find a good performance debug guide. The only thing changed was I imported my music library (\~60G), but my drive is still plenty empty (\~37% used), so I do not think it is ZFS, but I am not sure.
The other is the custom boot stick I made does not work. The initial loader will start, but then it stops. So, I need to find the docs on the boot process there.
Oh, and welcome to all the folks from [BSDNow](https://bsdnow.tv), which is an awesome video/audio podcast on all things BSD.

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date = "2014-03-06T05:03:27-07:00"
title = "New CMS (Again)"
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Still not going with a database on the back-end, but this one has a cool
real-time visualization editor.
It is called [HTMLy](https://www.htmly.com/). This should let me update
this a bit more. But, I have said that before.

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date = "2014-04-17T04:04:52-07:00"
title = "FreeBSD Challenge, Day 17"
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Today, I got my new laptop **dragon** up on wireless with a little
[Edimax EW-7811Un 150 Mbps Wireless 11n Nano Size USB
Adapter](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003MTTJOY/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;smid=A2N1S6D8VVCNZ3).
Now, setup begins in ernest. I have disabled the on-board wireless NIC
in the BIOS, and started to set up shop on it.
Next major task. Configure X. :)
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title = "FreeBSD Challenge final (for now)"
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Well, Something broke on the main computer. The speed when trying to run a few terminal apps, firefox, and thunderbird at the same time was appalling. I never had that sort of performance issues under ArchLinix on the same kit. I would love to take the time to debug it, but I am almost four weeks behind in dealing with my photos, including those from my trip to England, and I am getting ready to do run some training courses for work which will suck up all my free time.
I am re-installing Arch on the two laptops. I should have restored working configs in a day or two, and then I can start working on my backlog of photo and other projects.
Also, since my laptops are not supported under 10-RELEASE, I want to wait until 10.1 to see if my WLAN NICs are supported.
I still need to rebuild my server which has a failing drive (backed up the data already, just need time). I may go ahead and put 10-RELEASE on it since the NICs are fully supported.
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date = "2014-04-15T16:04:26-07:00"
title = "FreeBSD Challenge, Update"
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Sorry about the lack of updates over the last two weeks, but my job sent
me out of country for two weeks, and I had no time to work on this
project. Once I unbury myself, I will return to this with a vengence. I
am planning on *upgrading* my two servers to FreeBSD10 from Linux. One
will involve a major disk reworking as one of the disks is about dead.
Stay tuned, and thanks for coming back!
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![On The Road Again](/photos/Travel/Mexico/2014-05/StartMexico.webp)
The reason I was busy at work is that I was getting ready for two
different trips to conduct three different training courses.
Last week I was down in Mexico City to present some training to folks
from Latin and Central America on one of our new products. Next month, I
head off to Lost Wages, er, Las Vegas, for our major conference and two
different training courses, while supporting a third.
That, and the fact the two oldest kids are in swim team right now, free
time has drop to null.

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date = "2014-06-30T15:06:09-07:00"
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So, I had a bit of time over the weekend, and spent it doing a bit of hacking around.
I had re-installed [PC-BSD](https://www.pcbsd.org) on my HP EliteBook R810. I used 10.0.2, and everything but the wireless looked good. I decided to try to get the wireless working with the internal WNIC. [Previously](link://slug/freebsd-challenge-day-17), I used an external dongle to get WiFi working, but it was a pain to remember to pull it out, so I decided to try again.
I updated the base OS to 10-CURRENT, and then 'patched' the source tree using the info I found [in this forum post](https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=35467). Once I rebooted, and used the PC-BSD tools to enable the device, things worked! Since this was only last night, I need to test it a bit to make sure it stands up to load.
There is a [PR](https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169433), and support **has** been added to HEAD. I am going try to write a patch to get this added before then. I will need to see if I can figure out how to do that. :)
Since my work laptop uses the same WNIC, I am one step closer to being able to install it on the work machine.
I am going to see about trying to use **dragon** as my non-work daily driver and shake out what I need to do, so I may be restarting the [30 Day Challenge](link://tag/30DayChallenge) again, but a lot of that depends on how work goes.

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So, in 2013, I went to China twice, Tokyo, Las Vegas, London twice, and Barcelona. This was enough to get me some serious air miles. I decided to turn them into something to help me get back into photography, so I got Olympus OM-D E-M5. This is one of the latest in the line of Olympus DSLR. This one is a micros 4/3, with a built-in Electronic View Finder (EVF).
It showed up yesterday, and I have not had much of a chance to take it through its paces. I hope to have some time this weekend, but I have a major work project which might interfere.
Keep an eye out for some photos as I get a chance to try it out.

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I just noticed I have not updated this in a few weeks. Sorry about that.
I have my R810 running PCBSD 10.0.2, and I just patched and configured WiFi on it. I need to figure out how to submit a patch to see if I can get the Centrino supported in the main-line kernel so I do not have to compile a custom kernel just for that.
I almost have this working where I can switch to it full time. I need to deal with getting my **killer** apps installed and working. I had most (all?) of them working before, so I know I can do it again.
Currently, FireFox is not working for me for some reason, but Chromium is, so I will use that for now.
I have started a wiki to keep some notes for myself on this (what SA has not done that?), so I hope this process will be easier this time.
peace.

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date = "2014-08-05T20:08:14-07:00"
title = "One step closer"
categories = ["unix","sa"]
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So, I have upgraded my servers at the house to FreeBSD, and have set up
the basic functions needed on them. So, now, I am down to only my main
laptop running Linux. Oh, and the work machine which runs Windows 8.1.
So far, not much different than running Arch for the server. But, the
magic will be when I start working with jails\...

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So, even though I have been starting to [work with \<back2freebsd-maybe\>]{role="doc"} [FreeBSD \<freebsd-switch\>]{role="doc"} [again \<one-step-closer\>]{role="doc"} , I am still running [ArchLinux](https://www.archlinux.org/) on my workstation.
And I wanted to run a script I wrote a long time ago to support a [website](https://www.donaldharper.com/) of mine, which I have not updated in a while. The way I would update the site is by doing some batch editing of photos, park them in a directory, and then run my script which pushes the photos to the web server, and then interfaces with the CMS software to schedule the posts and all is good.
Except the script is in perl, and it uses some modules which are not main-stream. While perl has the awesome **cpan(1perl)** command to fetch and install perl modules, I wanted it to be tied into **pacman(8)** . A quick trip to the [AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/) turned up the tools cpan2aur and [mkaurball](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pkgbuild-introspection-git/) which made it pretty easy to package up and post the the AUR the 9 perl modules I needed to get my script going and keep track of things with pacman.
***EDIT 2020-04-07**: cpan2aur url not working.*
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date = "2014-10-23T06:10:00-07:00"
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Well, October is almost over already. Time flies. This fall has been
very busy with non-work things. Kids in sports (with me being the coach
for one of them), kids doing scouts, kids doing Y Adventure program
(with me in the leadership), kids in advance classes at school.
Free time, how I miss you.

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date = "2014-12-26T18:33:36-07:00"
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Another Year
============
Well, 2014 is drawing to a close. For the most part, it has been a good
year with the family, but time is always in short supply. I am going to
try to focus a bit more on my photography, as well as technology. We
shall see.
Happy new year, and make it a safe one.

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date = "2014-12-30T23:44:55-07:00"
title = "Goodbye 2014!"
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As 2014 draws to a close, I look back at the year.
Overall, it was a good year. The family staid reasonably health (just a
case of the flu which every one of us caught).
Work slowed down a bit after only three trips, and the last one was in
June, but I did get to spend two weeks in London which was cool. While
the work has been not what I really want to be doing, it has been
interesting, and next year promises to be very interesting. I have no
clue if travel is in the cards or not, but I will keep the camera handy.
In the coming year, I plan to focus on health, photography, and
technology. I want to get back to taking photos every day, and to bring
the quality back up to art level over the snapshots and historical
documentation that I have been doing.
Also, I want to revisit the 30 Day FreeBSD challenge again in January. I
have the old HP R810 running [PCBSD 10.1](https://www.pcbsd.org) already
set up that I have been using for a couple of days working the kinks out
of it, so I think I can do it this time. Normal caveat applies\...I have
a work laptop which dual boots Windows 8.1 and Fedora 21 for my work
stuff. The home stuff should work nicely on the laptop.
Just to prove things, this post was written under FreeBSD.
I also need to fix up my virtual host farm. I have one too many, and do
not need it, but of course, it is the one with the main mail and other
services, so I need to hurry up and migrate things off of it.
I hope your 2015 is a great year.

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New Look (again)
================
I was having some issues with my word press site, so I decided to look
around for something else. I found a static-site generator, and I think
I like it. So, I flipped this site over to it. I might flip the reset
RealSoonNow(TM).

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Wow\...missed November by that much. It was a good month, but busy with
the start of the holidays and all.
A bit of work in the background on some projects, but nothing to show
for it. Still a new picture daily over at my [photo
blog](https://www.donaldharper.com/), so go check it out.