Tuesday 19 November 2024


Shutdown last BeagleBone Black
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After migrating my Gopher-, Jabber, and web server to a VPS,
shutting down the Gitolite server, and disabling the port
forwarders on the ADSL-router some time ago, only my wiki was
left running on my BeagleBone Black.

Earlier this week I migrated my wiki to a jail, running on the
small FreeBSD bhyve/jail-server in my home network.

Last BeagleBone Black acting as server
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Over the years, I have been running several BeagleBone Black
boards in my home network, mostly running OpenBSD.

OpenBSD runs rock solid on these boards.

The BeagleBone Black that I decommissioned today, has been
running a multitude of services. The longest period it ran:

* relayd (default part of OpenBSD)
* httpd  (default part of OpenBSD)
* SSH server (default part of OpenBSD)
* Prosody jabber server
* Gopher server
* Gitolite server
* wiki server (awkiawki running as a CGI program using mawk
  and the OpenBSD httpd)

all at the same time!

This show-cases the capabilities of these wonderful boards, as
well as the light weight of OpenBSD.

Logs and home in ramdisk
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In order to prevent unnecessary wear of the SD-card, I
mounted /var/log and my $HOME both in ramdisk, using the
brilliant OpenBSD "-P" mount option to populate the ramdisk.

Shutdown today
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This afternoon, with pain in my heart, I gave the shutdown
command and removed the BeagleBone Black from the local
network.

It was the only BeagleBone Black that was still running, the
other was already collecting dust on my desk.

New purpose
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I love these little boards and running BSD on them, so
although they are currently relieved of duty, I am sure that
in the near future I will come up with some purpose and have
one or both boards back in function :)


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