FreeBSD 12.1: changing the default shell for jexec
chsh, .profile and a path argument all fail to give jexec a different shell. Reading jexec.c shows why, and where the hardcoded /bin/sh comes from.
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FreeBSD jails: extending the jls command
jls reports the parameters a jail was defined with, not what it is doing now. A small script adds process counts, users and live state to the same table.
Mattermost 5.19 on FreeBSD 12.1, inside a jail
Self-hosting Mattermost from the FreeBSD port: the jail, the database user, TLS with Let's Encrypt behind Cloudflare, and a working server in five minutes.
Filebeat for custom Nginx logs on FreeBSD 12.0
Filebeat's Nginx module expects the default log format. Changing the grok patterns, adding a field and loading the ingest pipeline so Kibana parses your own.
First performance numbers from MySQL 8.0
MySQL 8.0.11 measured against 5.7 on 50,000-row tables: 2% faster, 2% less I/O, more memory — and an apr-util build that needed a patch.