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Waiting for crap to compile at work, so I did some housekeeping - rearranged the sidebars, fixed the Google ads so they look like the rest of the blog & turned 'em back on.

Once again I'm pretty sure I didn't break anything - this is becoming a streak!

This is part Four of an N-part series (Definitely 4 parts, plus an epilogue) discussing the investigation of radmin as a patch/deployment tool for FreeBSD. This part deals with creating and deploying patch sets using radmind. I'm assuming you already built an radmind server, created a base load and deployed it to some machine(s). Now you just found out about a "ZOMG SUPER CRITICAL MAY CAUSE YOUR SYSTEM TO SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUST!" vulnerability in the base load, and you need to patch your systems. This is why I started looking at radmind in the first place, and it's pretty well suited to the task. Continue reading "Managing Multiple FreeBSD Machines with radmind -- Part Four"

So since I was breaking shit for work I broke shit for me too -- Upgraded to a shiny new Apache+PHP/Postgres install. Amazingly nothing broke :)

This is part Three of an N-part series (I'm thinking 4 parts, plus an epilogue) discussing the investigation of radmin as a patch/deployment tool for FreeBSD. This part deals with initial deployment of machines using radmind, and it has some prerequisites: - You need to have a target machine (a naked FreeBSD install w/ the radmind package installed) - You need to have an radmind server set up - You need to have a base load built If this is the first time you're doing an radmind deployment there is an additional requirement: You need to be willing to break the target machine (It might happen -- If there is a problem with your base load you might wind up with an unusable or even unbootable system). As with Part Two, I'm not getting into the details of how to meet the prerequisites. If you can't get FreeBSD installed and add a package you really don't belong here. Continue reading "Managing Multiple FreeBSD Machines with radmind -- Part Three"