Systems & Networking

You may or may not be surprised by this, but Alexa is always listening and phoning home back to Amazon. The same is also true for Google Assistance, Apple's Siri, and Microsoft's offering (what ever it's called these days). Pretty dystopian, isn't it?

This is an update to the original How to Setup DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) with Postfix and FreeBSD. A lot has changed in the time since that was written. First off, it's no longer called DomainsKeys. Now a days the standard goes by DKIM and the software used is OpenDKIM.

If you are getting errors like HttpRequestBase not present or unable to resolve class groovyx.net.http.HTTPBuilder on your Jenkins jobs then you will need to manually download and install some missing libraries.

Normally when you want to set options for your SSH server you would edit it's default configuration file located under /etc/ssh/sshd_config. This is the default file that's read by the sshd application. However this becomes a little more challenging when you want to use automated tooling to roll out configuration changes.

When you install and run Elasticsearch or OpenSearch on FreeBSD you might find that after a few days your root volume starts to get full. This is caused by temporary files that are created by each of those search engines in the system's temporary directory.