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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-01-27T14:49:51+00:00

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VBoxManage (The VirtualBox CLI)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-02-22T13:16:38+00:00

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 []

Comapct Sparse Image

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-11-25T08:52:05+00:00

Comapct Sparse Image hdiutil compact your.sparseimage sysadmin cli apple mac osx

localeadm

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-01T20:58:12+00:00

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.

pargs for Linux

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-04-28T09:01:02+00:00

pargs for Linux If you miss pargs from Solaris, then try this: ps eww -p linux sysadmin cli

jps - Java Virtual Machine Process Status Tool

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-19T14:05:55+00:00

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 . I'm using it with the parameters -l (long listing) and -m

Firefox

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-08-02T19:34:46+00:00

Firefox Start another Firefox To start another instance of firefox, use this command: firefox -P "My Profile" -no-remote For more information visit Opening a new instance of your Mozilla application with another profile in the mozillaZine Knowledge Base. mozilla firefox cli howto

fstyp

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:37+00:00

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…

Cleanup Packages

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-04-28T09:01:22+00:00

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:

Start and Stop the Apple File Server from Command Line

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-11-25T08:53:41+00:00

Start and Stop the Apple File Server from Command Line You can use /sbin/service to start or stop the “Personal File Sharing”. Start the Apple File Server (“Personal File Sharing”): sudo /sbin/service com.apple.AppleFileServer start And likewise stop it:

AirPort Command Line Interface

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-11-25T08:50:59+00:00

AirPort Command Line Interface AirPort On/Off Infos from OS X Daily AirPort On networksetup -setairportpower airport on AirPort Off networksetup -setairportpower airport off Select AirPort Network networksetup -setairportnetwork {Network} AirPort mac osx device wlan cli shell script sysadmin

Clear DNS Cache

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-04-05T06:49:10+00:00

Clear DNS Cache To clear the DNS cache on OS X, you first have to flush the cache and then send a signal the the 'mDNSResponder'. dscacheutil -flushcache sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder mac osx sysadmin dns cache cli

How To Create a Moveable VM with VirtualBox

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2010-05-17T07:55:00+00:00

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.

Notes for the Solaris 10 System Administration Exam (CX-310-200 & -202)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:36+00:00

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:

Solaris: List Devices

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:37+00:00

Solaris: List Devices To list the system's devices, you can use the following commands: * dmesg * format * prtconf * sysdef solaris sysadmin device cli admin

Command Line Tools Used in My Scripts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:35+00:00

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

Command Line Audio

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-10T21:06:49+00:00

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"

Make your Mac feel at Home

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-11-25T08:53:11+00:00

Make your Mac feel at Home A small snippet from one of my scripts which tests whether your Mac is in the given (home) WLAN. # # Path to 'airport' executeable, as of Mac OS X 10.5. AIRPORT="/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport" # # Set this to your Home WLAN SSID (name): HOMESSID="mycastle" # # Get SSID info from 'airport' and search for $HOMESSID SSID=$(${AIRPORT} --getinfo | grep ' SSID:') SSID=$(echo ${SSID} | grep "^SSID: ${HOMESSID}\$")…

Setting the Timezone

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-08T10:45:00+00:00

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

MacPorts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-11-25T08:59:36+00:00

MacPorts List Ports list requested ports: port echo requested | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | uniq list installed ports: port -qv installed Housekeeping When ports are updated, the old port is only deactivated, not uninstalled: ... autoconf @2.69_2 autoconf @2.69_3 autoconf @2.69_5 ...

init

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-07-03T13:03:11+00:00

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

Disable a Service

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-10-01T19:54:34+00:00

Disable a Service To disable a service: service stop update-rc.d enable|disable With systemd (starting with Debian 8): systemctl disable To (re)enable a service: update-rc.d enable|disable service stop

Change Encoding with iconv

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:34+00:00

Change Encoding with iconv Convert Single File iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 -o OUTPUT.txt INPUT.txt Converts INPUT.txt from iso-8859-1 to utf-8 and writes it to OUTPUT.txt. Convert All Files in a Directory for f in $(find . -type f) do iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 -o ${f}_$$_TEMP ${f} \ && mv ${f}_$$_TEMP ${f} done

Set a Mac's Hostname

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-11-25T08:53:23+00:00

Set a Mac's Hostname To set the permanent hostname, use the scutil utility (enter the desired hostname instead of the_hostname): sudo scutil --set HostName the_hostname Credits * mac osx cli sysadmin

Compare directories

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-09-19T12:34:39+00:00

Compare directories For each of the directories, generate a digest file: find DIR -type f -exec shasum {} + | LC_ALL=C sort -d -k 2 > shasums.txt It's important to use LC_ALL=C and the option -d of sort, to get compareable results on different machines.