2020

A simple shell status bar for OpenBSD and cwm(1)

       810 words, 4 minutes

These days, I try to use simple and stock software as much as possible on my OpenBSD laptop. I’ve been playing with cwm(1) for weeks and I was missing a status bar. After trying things like Tint2, Polybar etc, I discovered @gonzalo’s termbar . Thanks a lot! As I love scripting, I decided to build my own.

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Status Page using Collectd, InfluxDB and Grafana

       981 words, 5 minutes

Collectd is already grabbing statistics from my services and drop them into InfluxDB so that I can get pretty graphes with Grafana. One thing I miss is a single page that shows the overall status for all those systems ; somehow also known as Status Page.

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Import DHCP reservations from Synology DHCP Server to OpenBSD dhcpd(8)

       139 words, 1 minutes

I am migrating a bunch of services from my Synology to OpenBSD ; DHCP Server being one of them. I have configured quite a few DHCP reservations over time. And I would like a better way to migrate them to dhcpd(8) than copy & paste ; or rewrite from scratch.

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OpenBSD 6.7 on PC Engines APU4D4

       900 words, 5 minutes

I just got myself a PC Engines APU4D4. I miss an OpenBSD box providing home services. It’s quite simple to install and run OpenBSD on this machine. And you can even update the BIOS from OpenBSD.

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Disabling Universal Search on DSM

       156 words, 1 minutes

I’ve been monitoring DSM Universal Search for quite a long time now. And what I noticed that it often fails. Therefor, searching CIFS from the macOS Finder often ends not using the preprocessed data ; hear it’s damn slow. So I decided to just turn it off. But when using Drive, it’s not that simple using DSM. You have to use the console.

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