I'm proud to announce the release of libhijack 0.6.1 for FreeBSD and Linux. This is mainly a maintenance release with one new feature for FreeBSD users. This release fixes bugs relating to writing data to the child process via ptrace. The new feature for FreeBSD users is the ability to resolve the RTLD's symbols. This wasn't properly being done before. You can download the new release from GitHub by going to the Tags page and downloading the 0.6.1 tarball. Read below if you want a technical reason for the new feature for FreeBSD.

I just committed and pushed to GitHub a Drush module. Having a Drush module will allow you to administer jails via the command-line rather than do everything via the web interface. Right now, you can start and stop jails. I've also added autoboot support so that you can boot them when your server is booting up during the normal rc.d process. I'll be adding an rc.d script soon. You should expect a new release (version 0.6.0) over the weekend.

I'm proud to announce the 0.5.2 release of my FreeBSD jail administration Drupal module. This is a maintenance release that fixes a few bugs and enhances the user interface. This will be the last release prior to a major overhaul I'm working on. The tarball is here and the project lives on GitHub. A PR has been submitted to FreeBSD to update my www/drupal7-jailadmin port.

Read on to see what's changed.

This past year, I've taken a special interest in IPv6. I love that NAT isn't needed. I love that I can have all the static IPs I want. I love testing out what works and what doesn't. I had some spare time today to spend on hobbyist stuff, so I decided to try to get my FreeBSD machine running IPv6. The network the FreeBSD machine is on only supports IPv4. I have a VPS that runs OpenVPN. I'll show how to use Hurricane Electric's 6in4 tunnel to get your FreeBSD machine hooked up with IPv6 along with any jails. Of course, this article assumes you're using vnet (using epair devices). My jail administration Drupal module supports this configuration out-of-the-box. Continue reading to learn how to do it by hand and to see screenshots of my Drupal module in action.

FreeBSD has officially moved their ports tree over from CVS to SVN. That change renders my CVS->Git migration script useless (after a few weeks of use, I've found that the script is mainly useless anyways). I'll be recreating my freebsd-ports repo from scratch using `git svn`. I still need to get my FreeBSD development server online and I'll start doing nightly builds of 9-stable and 10-current again along with nightly ports tree updates.