Category Archives: FreeBSD

FreeBSD: Jails Networking and Container Management with Bastille
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4 May 2026

Sometimes on FreeBSD you need to run services that aren’t officially supported by FreeBSD, and this post actually came about because I was installing Open WebUI on my NAS – and Open WebUI was easier to set up on Linux. So I spun it up in a FreeBSD Linux jail, and to create the container… Read More: FreeBSD: Jails Networking and Container Management with Bastille0 (0) »

Hermes Agent: Running an AI Agent in a FreeBSD Jail with Bastille
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3 May 2026

I’ll write about Hermes Agent itself and what it can do separately – today it’s about how to run it on FreeBSD. Yesterday I played around with it on my Arch Linux – now I want a more production setup. I’ll be running it on my NAS with FreeBSD, and obviously only inside a FreeBSD… Read More: Hermes Agent: Running an AI Agent in a FreeBSD Jail… »

SSL/TLS: Self-signed Certificate Authority for NGINX on FreeBSD
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18 April 2026

I run a bunch of web services on my home NAS – Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, my own WordPress blog, and half a dozen other small things. The whole series of posts on FreeBSD and NAS starts here – FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – setting up ZFS mirror, there are 15 parts as of now. NGINX+PHP… Read More: SSL/TLS: Self-signed Certificate Authority for NGINX on FreeBSD0 (0) »

FreeBSD: Configuring FEMP – NGINX, PHP-FPM, MariaDB
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30 March 2026

Another installment in the FreeBSD Home NAS series, though this one isn’t really about the NAS – it’s purely about running web services. The full FreeBSD/NAS series starts here – FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – ZFS mirror setup, which now has 15 parts, but FEMP gets its own post. My FreeBSD host already runs… Read More: FreeBSD: Configuring FEMP – NGINX, PHP-FPM, MariaDB0 (0) »

FreeBSD: Home NAS, Part 15: Automating Backups – scripts, rsync, rclone
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15 March 2026

This is essentially the last major task – setting up automated backup creation. In the post FreeBSD: Home NAS, Part 13: Planning Data Storage and Backups I described the general idea in more detail – what gets backed up, where, what gets stored and how – and today is the purely technical part about the actual… Read More: FreeBSD: Home NAS, Part 15: Automating Backups – scripts, rsync,… »

FreeBSD: Home NAS, Part 13: Planning Data Storage and Backups
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14 March 2026

When I was just starting to build my NAS and thinking about backups, everything seemed pretty simple: there’s a work laptop with data, there’s a FreeBSD server for the NAS – just take and copy the data. So the initial idea was to have backup script(s) on Linux hosts that would push data to the… Read More: FreeBSD: Home NAS, Part 13: Planning Data Storage and Backups0… »

FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 12: synchronizing data with Syncthing
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14 March 2026

I’m gradually getting closer to wrapping up the home NAS setup on FreeBSD. There’s already a ZFS pool, datasets, and monitoring – time to start setting up backup automation. But what seemed pretty simple at first – “just copy the needed directories from the work laptop” – turned out to be an increasingly interesting problem… Read More: FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 12: synchronizing data with Syncthing0 (0) »

FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 14 – logs with VictoriaLogs and alerts with VMAlert
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28 February 2026

A continuation of the home NAS setup series. Monitoring in general has already been configured in previous parts, but log management still needs to be set up – because doing it in the console with tail -f /var/log/messages is certainly possible – but there are more convenient tools available. We’ll use VictoriaLogs – especially since… Read More: FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 14 – logs with VictoriaLogs and… »

FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 11 – extended monitoring with additional exporters
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10 February 2026

In the previous post FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 10 – monitoring with VictoriaMetrics and Grafana, we configured VictoriaMetrics, node_exporter, Grafana and created a basic dashboard and basic alerts. Now, I want to add a bit more monitoring – to see process CPU/RAM data, SMART information, and ZFS details. Everything written here has been added to… Read More: FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 11 – extended monitoring with additional… »

FreeBSD: configuring DragonFly Mail Agent for the root user mail
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8 February 2026

A lot of emails from various periodic tasks arrive in the root user’s local mailbox. I previously wrote a bit about periodic scripts in FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 5 – ZFS pool, datasets, snapshots, and monitoring; now it’s time to set up email forwarding to an external address. Since these emails arrive daily and reading… Read More: FreeBSD: configuring DragonFly Mail Agent for the root user mail0… »