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Running Mastodon on FreeBSD? Stop using wrapper scripts that break service status.
I've refactored the init scripts for Sidekiq, Puma, and Streaming to be fully production-grade:
- Clean privilege dropping (no su wrappers)
- Native signal handling for log rotation
- Correct PID tracking & status reporting.I published the scripts and the reasoning behind them in my Codeberg gists:
https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2026/20250115-FreeBSD_Mastodon_rc.d.md
I use those to run a Mastodon instance and they're working great so far!
β€οΈ 𦣠#FreeBSD #Mastodon #SelfHosting #mastoadmin #runbsd #OpenSource
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Running Mastodon on FreeBSD? Stop using wrapper scripts that break service status.
I've refactored the init scripts for Sidekiq, Puma, and Streaming to be fully production-grade:
- Clean privilege dropping (no su wrappers)
- Native signal handling for log rotation
- Correct PID tracking & status reporting.I published the scripts and the reasoning behind them in my Codeberg gists:
https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2026/20250115-FreeBSD_Mastodon_rc.d.md
I use those to run a Mastodon instance and they're working great so far!
β€οΈ 𦣠#FreeBSD #Mastodon #SelfHosting #mastoadmin #runbsd #OpenSource
@Larvitz Thank you!
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Running Mastodon on FreeBSD? Stop using wrapper scripts that break service status.
I've refactored the init scripts for Sidekiq, Puma, and Streaming to be fully production-grade:
- Clean privilege dropping (no su wrappers)
- Native signal handling for log rotation
- Correct PID tracking & status reporting.I published the scripts and the reasoning behind them in my Codeberg gists:
https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2026/20250115-FreeBSD_Mastodon_rc.d.md
I use those to run a Mastodon instance and they're working great so far!
β€οΈ 𦣠#FreeBSD #Mastodon #SelfHosting #mastoadmin #runbsd #OpenSource
@Larvitz Oh, that looks very nice, I'll have to copy that for my instance!
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@Larvitz Oh, that looks very nice, I'll have to copy that for my instance!
@jana Feel free to adapt whatever you need :) I run my instance for several weeks with them and finally newsyslog log-rotation works properly π
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Running Mastodon on FreeBSD? Stop using wrapper scripts that break service status.
I've refactored the init scripts for Sidekiq, Puma, and Streaming to be fully production-grade:
- Clean privilege dropping (no su wrappers)
- Native signal handling for log rotation
- Correct PID tracking & status reporting.I published the scripts and the reasoning behind them in my Codeberg gists:
https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2026/20250115-FreeBSD_Mastodon_rc.d.md
I use those to run a Mastodon instance and they're working great so far!
β€οΈ 𦣠#FreeBSD #Mastodon #SelfHosting #mastoadmin #runbsd #OpenSource
@Larvitz Excellent work. Those 'bad' scripts are mine, written in 2022 for a blog post about installing Mastodon on FreeBSD (which was deemed 'difficult' or 'impossible' then). I didn't catch these problems because I run Mastodon in a jail and typically restart the whole jail rather than individual services.
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@Larvitz Excellent work. Those 'bad' scripts are mine, written in 2022 for a blog post about installing Mastodon on FreeBSD (which was deemed 'difficult' or 'impossible' then). I didn't catch these problems because I run Mastodon in a jail and typically restart the whole jail rather than individual services.
@stefano Definitely not meant as critique.
I started with some scripts from the internet (might have been yours, I found them via search-engine) but had issues with log-rotation and signal handling from newsyslog, so I optimized it to suit my needs. Now they handle SIGHUP properly and allow proper log rotation π Just thought, I share them here, just in case someone else might benefit from it.
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@stefano Definitely not meant as critique.
I started with some scripts from the internet (might have been yours, I found them via search-engine) but had issues with log-rotation and signal handling from newsyslog, so I optimized it to suit my needs. Now they handle SIGHUP properly and allow proper log rotation π Just thought, I share them here, just in case someone else might benefit from it.
@Larvitz No, I didn't see it as a criticism at all. I'm glad you shared them, they'll definitely be helpful to a lot of people
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@Larvitz No, I didn't see it as a criticism at all. I'm glad you shared them, they'll definitely be helpful to a lot of people
@stefano Just checked where I've got the original rc scripts from, and that was actually your blog post π In my initial post, I attributed you and put a link to your website https://blog.hofstede.it/migrating-burningboardnet-mastodon-instance-to-a-multi-jail-freebsd-setup/
During the weekend, I'll update my post to reflect the current optimizations.
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@julian 100%, we've provided some links in our e-mail to resources for migrating in general, there's nothing we can do obviously to push accounts out to other instances and all we've done is stood up fedimedi.com because we wanted to be able to let folks move their posts (And Mastodon doesn't currently have a way to make that work). I've pointed folks to our other instances because obviously I know they're sticking around for a while where we're maintaining them.
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Hi @wild1145@mastodonapp.uk, can we discuss having postcall.pub in the loop to serve as a landing zone for people leaving med-mastodon?
NodeBB Inc. (through me) is funding and maintaining this instance. It was built out specifically for the needs of that community when the site was first at risk of disconnection.
It result sucks that you are not able to get the domain sorted out. I empathize fully!
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@wild1145@mastodonapp.uk @wild1145@universeodon.com Thanks Ryan
Iβve tagged him in a post on BlueSky in the hope he will connect with you.
I really donβt want to migrate.
Appreciate you keeping things going for March so I can put off the pain just a little longer :).
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