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07/06 ⇒ During a power outage, how do the three servers in the basement react? Over the weekend, some branches fell on a neighbor’s power service line. They still had power, but the branches had to be removed. That removal occurred this morning. I saw the trucks at about 6:45 AM as I walked past. I suspected I might lose power, and I did. This post records the shutdown and power on times/sequences. I might find this useful should I need to reevaluate the power-outage procedures. https://dan.langille.org/2026/07/06/during-a-power-outage-how-do-the-three-servers-in-the-basement-react/

@NebulaTide free space. Remember to occasionally clear the package cache. Long ago (much more than a year) I learnt the hard way with poudriere jails. I probably never reported the issue, but (at a glance) it might have been what was reported last month: pkgbase pkg cache lacks cleaning · Issue #1343 · freebsd/poudriere — <https://github.com/freebsd/poudriere/issues/1343>#FreeBSD #pkgbase #jails Cc @ianthetechie

It was a simple upgrade, not a minor or major upgrade. Last week: pkgbase major upgrade from FreeBSD 14.4 to 15.1-RC2: an example : r/freebsd

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ty5njr/pkgbase_major_upgrade_from_freebsd_144_to_151rc2/ This upgrade blended: part of the official announcement for 15.1-RC2 – altered for compatibility with the major upgrade part of Emrion's https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/762515 – adapted for my preferred shell, /bin/tcsh. … Packages for the third release candidate, RC3, were not available at the time.

26/07/09 ⇒ GitLab on FreeBSD Today I will share how to install and setup a GitLab server on FreeBSD. Most people just use Microslopft GitHub these days but this approach has one big drawback – its cloud only solution. When it comes to on premise solutions there are GitLab and there is also Gitea. GitLab is closest to what GitHub provides while Gitea is very light and smaller brother trying to achieve the same goals by doing less. Good to have alternatives. https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/gitlab-on-freebsd/