Date: 2026-02-11 per-jail RAM, VMEM, and swap metrics in Prometheus/Grafana.
Host: FreeBSD jail host
Component: RACCT/RCTL + node_exporter textfile collector
Outcome: Per-jail RAM/VMEM/SWAP metrics in Prometheus/Grafana
These are the steps I took to make an imported ZFS/Grafana dashboard work correctly on FreeBSD. The panels assumed Linux exporters and referenced metrics that do not exist on FreeBSD. The result was a dashboard full of empty panels. This walkthrough shows how I identified the missing ARC kstats, exported them cleanly, and refactored the panels to reflect the real FreeBSD kernel state.
Host: clemente (10.10.0.1)
Stack: FreeBSD + node_exporter (textfile collector) + Prometheus + Grafana
Date: 2026-02-10
FreeBSD ZFS Grafana Panel.
Date: 2026-02-10
Host: new Mac (macOS Tahoe)
Context: Migration Assistant clone from older Mac failed
SecurityAgent was unable to create requested mechanism TeamViewerAuthPlugin:start.
First day using macOS Tahoe, immediately greeted with a broken Migration Assistant clone from an older Mac. The system failed to reach the login window due to a corrupted SecurityAgent authorization plugin left behind by TeamViewer. This caused login to fail and wedged Setup Assistant in a deadlock during post-migration initialization.
Date: 2026-02-08
Host: grafana
Component: Prometheus + Grafana + exporters +zfs
Scope: ZFS monitoring
This guide sets up zpool capacity metrics (zpool list) for Prometheus/Grafana using
node-exporter’s textfile collector on FreeBSD.
This complements (not replaces) zfs_exporter, which provides ARC/internal ZFS metrics but not pool capacity.
Metrics exposed to Prometheus:
zpool_size_bytes{pool="zroot"}zpool_alloc_bytes{pool="zroot"}zpool_free_bytes{pool="zroot"}zpool_capacity_ratio{pool="zroot"}These map directly to:
…Date: 2026-02-08
Host: grafana
Component: Prometheus + Grafana + exporters
Scope: DNS monitoring
Monitoring DNS with Grafana
Date: 2026-02-08
Host: GhostBSD
Component: Ungoogled-Chrome
Note 2025-11-02 23:04:26
This document packages everything needed to install, back up, restore, and run Ungoogled Chromium inside a Bastille jail named chromey, in the JailFox style. After you complete the process, you have a jailed Ungoogled Chromium with full video and audio support, emoji, and fonts.
The process starts with a robust Home backup/restore flow, so your profile and configuration survive rebuilds. Then it covers the templates, scripts, mounts, X11 fixes, and the launchers.
…This guide shows you how to set up Unbound on your Mac with MacPorts. Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver. The primary goal is to create a DNS sinkhole. A DNS sinkhole is a security mechanism that intercepts and blocks malicious traffic. When you configure Unbound on your Mac, you improve your network security. You also enhance privacy with DNS over TLS. You block unwanted ads and trackers.
…Date: 2026-02-08
Host: macOS (MacPorts prefix: /opt/local)
Component: doas (MacPorts)
My WireGuard client app failed to load profiles because the code path relies on doas for privilege escalation. This fix corrects the macOS (MacPorts) doas installation so the client can elevate properly.
doas: not installed setuid
…and exiting with status 1.
On macOS, MacPorts installs doas without the setuid bit by default.
Because doas is not setuid-root, it cannot elevate privileges. I depend on doas and rarely use sudo, so any command that relies on it fails immediately, including:
Date: 2026-02-08
Host: server (macOS Monterey; Homebrew prefix: /usr/local)
Grafana install: Homebrew (/usr/local/opt/grafana)
Grafana data: /usr/local/var/lib/grafana
brew services. The service needed to start at boot without a desktop login./Library/LaunchDaemons/... that runs at boot as your user.You can point Grafana at different data directories. In this setup, the running Brew Grafana server uses:
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