https://old.andunix.net/ 2026-06-03T22:12:20+00:00 https://old.andunix.net/ https://old.andunix.net/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2020-09-15T19:10:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/wiki/syntax Formatting Syntax DokuWiki supports some simple markup language, which tries to make the datafiles to be as readable as possible. This page contains all possible syntax you may use when editing the pages. Simply have a look at the source of this page by pressing text/html 2010-10-04T12:33:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2010/upgrade_solaris_11opensolaris_text_graphical Upgrade Solaris 11/OpenSolaris from Text to Graphical If you installed your system using the text installer, the system will only be installed with a text interface. Here is how to upgrade to a graphical system. Do the following as root (su) or with appropriate permissions ( text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/solaris/exam_notes Notes for the Solaris 10 System Administration Exam (CX-310-200 & -202) I'm preparing myself for the two exams to achieve the Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) certification. This are my notes taken while studying the preparation books. Managing File Systems List Devices To list the system's devices, you can use the following commands: text/html 2014-04-28T08:07:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/openssl/debug_server_certificate_from_client Debug Server Certificate from Client Credit for this example goes to “ Checking A Remote Certificate Chain With OpenSSL” from langui.sh. openssl s_client -showcerts -connect www.andunix.net:443 Informations about the used arguments from the OpenSSL man page: * s_client: SSL/TLS client program * -showcerts: display the whole server certificate chain: normally only the server certificate itself is displayed. text/html 2015-11-25T08:54:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2010/home_server_goals Home Server Goals As Constantin suggested, here is a list of services, which my home server should provide: * Personal Video Recorder: I'm using the EyeTV Hard- and Software from Elgato to record, cut and archive TV broadcasts. * Secure File Archive/Backup text/html 2014-02-22T13:16:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/virtualbox/cli VBoxManage (The VirtualBox CLI) This is a online reference of the output of VBoxManage without options. Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 4.2.16 (C) 2005-2013 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. Usage: VBoxManage [<general option>] <command> text/html 2014-11-20T08:13:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/openssl/generate_key Generate a Test Key openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout testkey.key -out testkey.crt Informations about the used arguments from the OpenSSL man page: * req: PKCS#10 certificate request and certificate generating utility. * -x509: this option outputs a self signed certificate instead of a certificate request. This is typically used to generate a test certificate or a self signed root CA. The extensions added to the certificate (if any) are specified in the configurati… text/html 2010-05-17T07:55:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2010/how_create_moveable_vm_virtualbox How To Create a Moveable VM with VirtualBox VirtualBox works good when you use the same VMs all the time. It organizes the disk images in one directory and the configuration files in another. It kees a record of all known disk images and virtual machines. text/html 2013-03-01T20:58:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/solaris/localeadm localeadm The localeadm utility queries and configures Solaris locales through a command line interface. * man page: localeadm(1M) Preparation Check your Solaris Release with cat /etc/release and get a matching DVD or ISO image. If you're using an ISO image, you have to mount it (insert your path in the first line. text/html 2009-04-27T11:30:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2009/project_idea_wikitable Project Idea: WikiTable I'm using wikis a lot but every wiki I tried so far lacks support for tables. The wikis are able to show tables, but building a table using lots of pipes “|” sucks. What I want to develop (or learn that such a this already exists) is a small application which creates tables which then can be included in wiki pages. text/html 2013-02-18T14:26:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/openssl/compare_key_with_certificate Compare a Key with its Certificate Credit for this example goes to “Verifying that a Private Key Matches a Certificate” from the University of Wisconsin Knowledgebase. To see if a key server.key belongs to the certificate server.crt, they need to have the same “modulus” and “exponent”. openssl x509 -noout -text -in server.crt openssl rsa -noout -text -in server.key text/html 2013-02-19T14:05:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/java/jps jps - Java Virtual Machine Process Status Tool The Java Virtual Machine has a jps tool wich is a bit like the ps command. jps lists all java Processes of a user. You can find the man page at <http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/share/jps.html>. I'm using it with the parameters -l (long listing) and -m text/html 2009-08-11T15:06:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2009/zfs_playground ZFS Playground This small demo shows the basic ZFS operations. You will need a Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris host and 1,2GB of disk space. Preparation First, go to a directory where you have enought space. We will need 1,2GB for 6 files of 200MB. The files are named like disks, but they are only files for this demo. text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/solaris/dladm2dot Virtual Network Visualization OpenSolaris supports virtual networks using virtual interfaces connected with virtual switches. This feature was introduced with Project Crossbow in OpenSolaris 2009.06. To visualize the internal network(s), I created a perl script which takes the output of text/html 2020-09-15T19:10:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/wiki/welcome Welcome to your new DokuWiki Congratulations, your wiki is now up and running. Here are a few more tips to get you started. Enjoy your work with DokuWiki, -- the developers Create your first pages Your wiki needs to have a start page. As long as it doesn't exist, this link will be red: text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/z/relax/api/base/base-exec-superuser base-exec-superuser Executes a command as a given user. Command is executed using ssh if the user is not on localhost. Before executing the command, the privileges will be elevated. This privilege elevation method is defined by $RIGHT_ELEVATION in the service configuration and can be either text/html 2013-03-02T19:19:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/z/cloudtable/index CloudTable Big Picture This concept-image shows the currently planned architecture. [CloudTable Big Picture Draft 1] The core appears as a single block for now, it will be broken up in a second version of the drawing. The config store stores the informations about the forms, tables and applications. Also the users will be stored here. The data store stores the text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/z/relax/api/base/base-ssh-login base-ssh-login Logs into a remote host using ssh. This can be used to open a remote sesssion, but ususally it's used by other methods (especially base-exec-user) to remotely execute a command. Usage base-ssh-login SERVICE [ COMMAND ] * SERVICE: a key of an user or host definition in the repository. From this, the following properties are used: text/html 2020-09-15T19:10:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/wiki/dokuwiki DokuWiki wiki:dokuwiki DokuWiki is a simple to use and highly versatile Open Source wiki software that doesn't require a database. It is loved by users for its clean and readable Formatting Syntax. The ease of maintenance, backup and integration makes it an administrator's favorite. Built in text/html 2013-03-01T20:24:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/oracle/rman Oracle: Recovery Manager Start Recovery Manager rman target / Delete Archive Logs Delete all archive logs but keep the last 45 days: DELETE ARCHIVELOG ALL COMPLETED BEFORE 'SYSDATE -45'; To remove archive logs older than 3 days without prompting, e.g. via cron, after backup run: text/html 2013-02-03T11:12:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/p/andunix-tool/index andunix-tool Usage: java -jar andunix-tool.jar <Global Options> <Command> <Command Options> Tip: I suggest to create a shell-script to ease the java starting: #! /bin/sh # Change this to the directory in which you put ''andunix-tool.jar'' # and the corresponding ''lib'' directory ANDUNIX_TOOL_DIR=${HOME}/opt/andunix-tool # Use this to define the path to your Java-Intallation JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk exec ${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java -jar ${ANDUNIX_TOOL_DIR}/andunix-tool.jar $* text/html 2013-09-02T20:37:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/prog/firefox/extensions Firefox Extensions Browsing Extensions Extension Description Adblock Plus A must-have. Blocks all these blinking ads which are so anoying. Greasemonkey Customize webpages using JavaScript. WOT, Web of Trust Information about the reputation of a page. Self-Destructing Cookies Removes cookies after closing the tab or navigating to another site. text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/script/dyndns_updates_without_client DynDNS Updates without a Client My new hosting provide Strato offers DynDNS. I was searching for a DynDNS client for my OpenSolaris Home Server, but a small bash script does the job as good as any other client. #! /bin/bash . ${HOME}/.dyndns.cfg DOMAINS=$(cat ${HOME}/.dyndns.domains) echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M') $(basename $0)" for domain in ${DOMAINS}; do echo -n " ${domain} - " curl --silent --show-error --insecure --user ${LOGIN} "${UPDATE_URL}?hostname=${domain}" d… text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/z/relax/api/base/base-exec-user base-exec-user Executes a command as a given user. Command is executed using ssh if the user is not on localhost. Usage base-exec-user USER COMMAND * USER: A key of an user definition in the repository. From this, the following properties are used: text/html 2014-02-02T12:02:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/p/dmx/program Program The controller (Arduino) can be programmed to animate the value on a DMX channel from one value to another. The contoller has an program counter which is counted up by one every iteration. The iterations will be 5ms (200Hz), 10ms (100 Hz) or 20ms (50 Hz) long. The value of the program counter ist exchanged between the host an the controller with the command text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/solaris/pkg_repositories Package Repositories There's a list of multi-OS repositories at <http://wikis.sun.com/display/IpsBestPractices/Directory+of+Package+Repositories>. More on IPS, the Image Package System can be found at: * <http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg/>. * <http://wikis.sun.com/display/IpsBestPractices/> Repository Description <http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release/> OpenSolaris Distribution, Releases <http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/> OpenSolaris Distribution, Development Quality text/html 2015-02-11T14:42:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/openssl/download_server_certificate Download a Server Certificate First, load the certificate chain from the server: openssl s_client -showcerts -connect www.example.org:443 </dev/null This will output the whole server certificate chain. Every chertificate ist wrapped between ----- text/html 2009-02-25T11:04:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2009/travian_village_planner_-_tribe_and_village_name Travian Village Planner - Tribe & Village Name Yesterday, I had some time and worked on the Village Planner. It now has an input field for the name of the village and you can select your tribe. Both informations are saved to the URL when clicking on “make bookmark”. The tribe is saved as parameter 't' and the name as 'n'. text/html 2009-02-18T19:25:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2009/dice_roller Dice Roller I programmend a small dice roller in javascript. You enter the number of dice, sides and the offset and press the button “roll”. The script shows the individual dice and the resulting sum. For convenience, there is a second form where you can just enter the number of dice and press the butten for the type of dice. At the bottom, there are some links of six- and eightsided dice, which are often needed in roleplaying games. You can also create bookmarks for dice, e.g. text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/solaris/fstyp fstyp fstyp reports the type of file system. With the -v (verbose) option reports even more informations. * man page: fstyp(1M) Example UFS: ''fstyp'' fstyp /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 ufs UFS: ''fstyp -v'' fstyp -v /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 ufs magic 11954 format dynamic time Wed Dec 23 17:26:29 2009 sblkno 16 cblkno 24 iblkno 32 dblkno 760 sbsize 2048 cgsize 8192 cgoffset 64 cgmask 0xffffffc0 ncg 427 size 20972160 blocks 20654449 bsize 819… text/html 2014-02-02T11:19:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/p/dmx/protocol Serial Protocol For the communication between the host (PC) and the controller (Arduino), there is a serial protocol over USB. The protocol is line by line, with carriage return (“\n”) as end. The first character denotes the type of command or information. The following commands have been defined: text/html 2018-12-06T10:07:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/code/git Git Basics Init Repository Standard: git init [DIR] Bare: git init --bare [DIR] Log See commits between branches: git log master..develop Branches List Branches git branch Switch Branch git checkout BRANCH Delete Branch git branch -d BRANCH Delete Remote Branch text/html 2017-01-04T09:33:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/sysadmin/tomcat_upload_limit Increase the Tomcat Upload Limit The “manager”-App of the Tomcats has a limit of 50MiB. This limit is defined in the file WEB-INF/web.xml within the “manager”-App: <multipart-config> <!-- 50MB max --> <max-file-size>52428800</max-file-size> <max-request-size>52428800</max-request-size> <file-size-threshold>0</file-size-threshold> </multipart-config> text/html 2013-10-18T08:01:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2013/welcome_back Welcome Back In 2010 I moved my blog from DokuWiki to Drupal. Today, I moved it back to DokuWiki. The reason for switching to Drupal was for the better blogging support. As I'm using this site more as Knowledge Base than a Blog, DokuWiki is the better alternative. You can still access the old site at old.andunix.net. text/html 2013-03-10T21:06:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/mac_command_line_audio Command Line Audio Change Mac Audio Volume from Command Line To change the audio volume from remote of my Mac at home, I needed a command line tool which I can use via ssh. I've found it here: OS X Daily - Change the system volume from the command line. It's as easy as sudo osascript -e "set Volume 10" text/html 2013-03-15T09:42:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2009/travian_village_planner Travian Village Planner Currently I'm working on a village planner for Travian. It was inspired by the village planner at <http://www.ebav.co.uk/travian/>, but I was missing a possibility to save and reference my village. So the main feature was saving the village to a bookmark. This is done by the text/html 2013-03-03T14:10:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2011/project_pda Project PDA I'm currently working on a project called 'PDA'. PDA stands for “Personal Digital Assistant”. I used several PDAs over the last two decades, from Sharp, Psion, Palm and others. But they all were just Personal Datastorages. I always missed the text/html 2009-08-11T10:16:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2009/opensolaris_virtualbox_mount_shared_folder OpenSolaris / VirtualBox: Mount Shared Folder To mount a shared folder in a OpenSolaris guest in VirtualBox, you have to install the Guest Additions and then mount the file system type vboxfs. The Usage is: mount -F vboxfs <share> <mountpoint> text/html 2010-04-21T08:17:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2010/memory_usage_solaris_container_zone Memory Usage of a Solaris Container (Zone) Last week one of my servers ran out of RAM and Swap. Shame on me for not monitoring that, but it's now. As the server is running several zones, my first question was: Which zone is eating up my RAM? So, here are the commands I used. text/html 2014-04-28T09:01:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/linux/debian/cleanup_packages Cleanup Packages Purge uninstalled Packages If a package is removed, it is only uninstalled, but the configuration remains on the system. This is a good thing, as you are able to reinstall the package and have it configured with the old configuration. But if you want to cleanup this old stuff, you can ge a list of uninstalled (but not purged) packages with this command: text/html 2014-05-16T06:36:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/linux/disable_core_dumps Disable Core Dumps To disable core dumps create a file /etc/security/limits.d/no_core_dumps with the content * hard core 0: echo '* hard core 0' > /etc/security/limits.d/no_core_dumps Based on the “Nix Craft” article Linux Disable Core Dumps. linux sysadmin admin config text/html 2009-07-21T17:52:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2009/virtual_network_visualization Virtual Network Visualization OpenSolaris supports virtual networks using virtual interfaces connected with virtual switches. This feature was introduced with Project Crossbow in OpenSolaris 2009.06. To visualize the internal network(s), I created a perl script which takes the output of dladm show-link and generates a dot-File, which then can be rendered using text/html 2013-07-15T10:39:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/hg Mercurial .hgignore Some handy .hgignore expressions: Ignore Mac Files Ignore .DS_Store and ._* files: (^|/)\._[^/]+$ (^|/)\.DS_Store$ NetBeans These expressions exclude the directories build, dist and nbproject/private. Depending on your project setup, you may want to also exclude text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/index Cryptography This guide tries to easily describe the terms used in cryptography. As all pages on this site, it's meant as a mnemonic for myself, but I'm happy if someone else finds it helpful too. cryptography index cryptography guide text/html 2009-11-27T16:36:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2009/relax ReLAX Thanks to Wolfgang Stief and Constantin Gonzalez, I got hold on one of the proceedings of the Linux Kongress and OpenSolaris Developer Conference. In this book, I found amoung other, also very interesting, articles one about LAX by Thomas Groß. LAX has some very interesiting concepts, but, unfortunately, it doesn't fit my needs. So I decided to take some of the concepts of LAX and build my own sysadmin-automation-framework. text/html 2013-02-14T13:15:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/ssh SSH Export public key from secret key The public key andunix.pub which belongs to the secret key andunix is extracted. ssh-keygen -y -f andunix > andunix.pub security cryptography ssh sysadmin text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/script/root_login_with_bash root login with bash On our systems, the root account is set to be a role, so you can't login as root, just su to root from an user which has the root role. Also, the root user has the bourne shell (/bin/sh), but working with /bin/bash is much easier. Using this command, you can directly log in as text/html 2013-03-08T10:45:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/linux/debian/timezone Setting the Timezone The timezone is stored in the file /etc/timezone. Check the Timezone cat /etc/timezone Example: # cat /etc/timezone Europe/London Set the Timezone You can use vi: vi /etc/timezone Or set it directy: echo "Europe/Berlin" > /etc/timezone text/html 2013-07-03T13:03:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/linux/debian/init init Managing init Scripts To activate an init script (“myscript”): update-rc.d myscript enable To deactivate an init script (“myscript”): update-rc.d myscript remove Further information can be found at Daemon - Debian Wiki sysadmin linux debian cli text/html 2013-07-11T06:39:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/webdesign/css/shadow Shadows Box Shadow Normal Shadow Only the shadow: box-shadow: 1px 4px 8px #888888; Looks even better with a tiny grey border: border: 1px solid #DDDDDD; box-shadow: 1px 4px 8px #888888; Inset Shadow The shadow inside the box: box-shadow: 1px 4px 8px #888888 inset; text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/solaris/filesystem File System File System Organization * File system organization - filesystem(5) File Systems This is a non-complete list of file systems in Solaris. * hsfs(7FS): High Sierra & ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system * lofs(7FS): loopback virtual file system * pcfs(7FS): FAT formatted file system text/html 2013-03-01T20:38:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/oracle/resize_instance Oracle: Resize Instance In this example, the SGA will be resized to 6GB and the PGA to 2GB. First, change the SPFile: ALTER SYSTEM SET pga_aggregate_target = 2G SCOPE=SPFILE; ALTER SYSTEM SET sga_target = 6G SCOPE=SPFILE; Then, (optionally) export the SPFile to a PFile: text/html 2015-01-29T09:15:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/openssl/print_key Print Information about a Key openssl x509 -inform DER -in testkey.cer -noout -text Informations about the used arguments from the OpenSSL man page: * x509: Certificate display and signing utility. * -inform DER: This specifies the input format normally the command will expect an X509 certificate but this can change if other options such as -req are present. The DER format is the DER encoding of the certificate and PEM is the base64 encoding of the DER encoding with header and footer lines … text/html 2015-12-09T07:36:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/openssl/print_certificate Print Information about a Certificate openssl x509 -in testkey.crt -noout -text Informations about the used arguments from the OpenSSL man page: * x509: Certificate display and signing utility. * -in testkey.crt: This specifies the input filename to read a certificate from or standard input if this option is not specified. text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/solaris/etc/path_to_inst /etc/path_to_inst * path_to_inst(4) The file /etc/path_to_inst maps physical device paths to driver name and driver instance number. Example: e1000g0 "/pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@2/network@0" 0 "e1000g" solaris config device text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/z/relax/api/base/base-repo-get-value base-repo-get-value Loads a service configuration from the repository and outputs a single value (for the given key) to STDOUT. Usage base-repo-get-value SERVICE KEY * SERVICE: A key of a service definition in the repository. * KEY: The key for the value in the service definition to output. text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/p/pda/index Project PDA The Project PDA aims to build a real Personal Digital Assistant. * Data Collector: Collection of API Implementations to connect to several (Web-)Services and access data there * Blackbox: Entity Storage. Stores XML objects like tasks, notes etc. * PADD: Personal Access and Data Display. Named after the Star Trek Pads, it implements the pda index text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/plaintext Plaintext The plaintext is unencrypted and unsigned text. It's the payload which then get's signed and/or encrypted. Wikipedia defines plaintext as: " In cryptography, plaintext is information a sender wishes to transmit to a receiver. Cleartext is often used as a synonym. Before the computer era, plaintext most commonly meant message text in the language of the communicating parties. Plaintext has reference to the operation of cryptographic algorithms, usually encryption algorithms, and is … text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/script/tools Command Line Tools Used in My Scripts This is a list of comman dline tools which I use in my scripts an which should be installed on every of my systems. Basic tools (e.g. awk, find, grep, ps) which are always installed are not listed. Audio/Video text/html 2014-11-25T10:40:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/java/jax-ws_debugging JAX-WS Debugging If you use the builtin JAX-WS implementation and want to see the SOAP requests and responses, you have to turn on the “dump” option in the transport pipe. The system property to set depends on your Java version. com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.dump=true com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.dump=true com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.dump=true com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.dump=true text/html 2017-04-13T20:11:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/sysadmin/list_open_ports List Open Ports To list the open ports together with the listening processes: netstat -tulpn Here is an example output: Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 695/sshd tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN 695/sshd udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:55872 … text/html 2013-02-04T22:18:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/z/travian/travian_info_tool Travian Info Tool This tool in currently in planning. You will be able to get Informations about * players * allies * villages * fields URLs Subject ID URL Player uid /travian/info?w={world}&uid={id} Ally text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/z/relax/api/base/base-ssh-umount base-ssh-umount Unmounts a remote share which had been mounted using sshfs/fuse (sftp). Usage base-ssh-mount SERVICE * SERVICE: A key of a service definition in the repository. Returns No output. text/html 2013-03-12T21:41:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2010/drupal_reverse_proxy Drupal: Reverse Proxy skybow wrote the very helpful article “Drupal via HTTPS/SSL Proxy Server (shared certificates)”. While following his advice, I found some improvements. To reduce the amount of editing and to increate the reusability, I substituted * www.example.com with $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] and text/html 2014-01-27T14:38:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2014/simulating_slow_network_connections_with_trickle Simulating slow network connections with trickle You can limit the downlink of a Firefox browser to 512 KB/s with this command: trickle -d 512 /usr/bin/firefox -no-remote -P test More informations can be found on these pages: * trickle Homepage * Trickle in the Ubunutuuser Wiki (german) text/html 2013-03-01T20:36:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/oracle/spfile_and_pfiles Oracle: SPFile and PFiles Oracle reads its parameters from a file called “SPFile”. You can't change it directly as it's a binary file. Additionally, Oracle can read the parameters from “PFiles”, which are regular text files. Create PFile To export the SPFiles to a PFile, just enter the following in SQLplus: text/html 2014-09-05T12:12:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/java/firefox_java-plugin Install the Java-Plugin for Firefox To install the Java plugin for Firefox, you have to create a symlink from Firefox's plugin directory /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/ to the file libnpjp2.so in the JRE's “lib” dir. sudo ln -s \ ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so \ /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libnpjp2.so text/html 2013-02-04T22:18:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/z/travian/index Travian Welcome to the Travian tools at andunix.net. Here I will publish my projects regarding the browsergame “Travian” (german page). travian index Links to other Tools * Travian Analyzer * Travian Toolbox * Travian Village Planner -- the inspiration for my village planner * TravMap * Travianmap * Travian Kampfberichtparser (german) travian