https://old.andunix.net/ 2026-06-04T02:48:27+00:00 https://old.andunix.net/ https://old.andunix.net/_media/favicon.ico 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 2013-03-02T19:19:04+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 2013-07-11T06:39:41+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 2013-02-04T22:17:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/db/iso/3166-2/index ISO 3166-2 * urn:iso:std:iso:3166:-2:ed-2007:en * EN: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2> standard iso country text/html 2013-02-04T22:18:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/z/travian/travian_map_download_script Travian Map Download Script This is my script(s) which I use to downoad the map.sql from Travian and import it to the database. config.inc # # database DB_USER="travian" # set this to your database user DB_PASS="travian" # set this to your database password DB_INST="travian" # set this to your database instance # # directories MAP_DIR=${HOME}/opt/travian DUMP_DIR=/srv/glassfish/domains/domain1/docroot/sql # # executables MYSQL="/srv/mysql/bin/mysql --default-character-set=utf8 -u${DB_USER} -… 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 2013-02-04T22:17:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/db/iso/3166-2/de ISO 3166-2:DE * urn:iso:std:iso:3166:-2:ed-2007:en * DE: <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:DE> * EN: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:DE> standard iso country germany de text/html 2010-10-27T12:36:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2010/ips_repository_appliance IPS Repository Appliance Brian Leonard wrote a good guide how to setup a Local Repository Mirror. If you are in a hurry, it's good to know that you don't need to copy the entire repository of about 8GB to a local disk. You can use the repository image directly. Here is how you can do that. text/html 2015-11-25T08:53:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/make_your_mac_feel_home 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}\$")… 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 2013-02-04T22:18:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/z/travian/analyzer_bookmarklet Travian Analyzer Bookmarklet Installation First, save a bookmark with title “Analyze” and the location javascript:top.location.href=((String(window.getSelection()).length>0)?'http://travian.ws/analyser.pl?s=de7&q='+window.getSelection():top.location.href.replace(/http:\/\/welt7\.travian\.de\/(spieler|allianz)\.php\?/,'http://travian.ws/analyser.pl?s=de7&')) 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 2016-07-14T06:40:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/wifi_config_qrcode WiFi Config QR-Code To generate a qr-code for a wifi config, you must encode the following URL in the qr-code: WIFI:S:<SSID>;T:<WPA|WEP|>;P:<password>;; If the network is hidden, then add H:true;: WIFI:S:<SSID>;T:<WPA|WEP|>;P:<password>;H:true;; You can try it here: 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 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 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 2013-02-04T22:17:32+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 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 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 2010-04-29T14:07:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2010/set_php_variables_htaccess_files Set PHP Variables in .htaccess Files If your PHP scripts run longer than the maximum execution time set by your webhoster, then you will see a message like this: Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in ... To override the default for your webspace, you can use the php_value directive in a .htaccess file. 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 2013-02-04T22:17:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/db/iso/3166-1/index ISO 3166-1 * urn:iso:std:iso:3166:-1:ed-2006:en * <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1> * <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO-3166-1-Kodierliste> standard iso country text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/db/iso/3166-1/alpha-2 ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 * urn:iso:std:iso:3166:-1:ed-2006:en#alpha-2 * <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2> standard iso country 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 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/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 2013-02-04T22:17:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/z/relax/api/host/host-user-list host-user-list Lists the users on a given host. Usage host-user-tab HOST * HOST: a key of a host service definition in the repository. Returns Returns the first colum (login) of the /etc/passwd file. Example users=$(host-user-list "${host}" \ | egrep -v "${IGNORED_USERS}" ) 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 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 2013-02-04T22:17:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/z/relax/api/host/host-user-tab host-user-tab Lists the users on a given host as a colon separated table. Usage host-user-tab HOST * HOST: a key of a host service definition in the repository. Returns Returns the contents of the /etc/passwd file. 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 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 2013-02-04T22:17:37+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 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 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 2015-11-25T09:43:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/rmdir rmdir for OSX The Finder on OSX creates .DS_Store files in the directories to store its settings. This makes removing directories from the command line quite complicated: $ rmdir test rmdir: test: Directory not empty $ rm test/.DS_Store $ /bin/rmdir test text/html 2014-04-28T09:01:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/linux/pargs pargs for Linux If you miss pargs from Solaris, then try this: ps eww -p <pid> linux sysadmin cli text/html 2016-04-05T06:49:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/clear_dns_cache 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 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-service base-repo-get-service Loads a service configuration from the repository and outputs it to STDOUT. Usage base-repo-get-service SERVICE * SERVICE: a key of a service definition in the repository. Returns Returns the service definition. This is usually evaluated in a shell script by the text/html 2010-02-28T23:00:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2010/welcome Hello Drupal Some time ago, I decided to migrate my blog from DokuWiki to Drupal. Blogging with DokuWiki was OK using the plugins from the DokuWiki Blogsuite BundleHub, but Drupal has some advantages. It's always fascinating to get into a new technology. After using misc. wiki systems and Wordpress, I wanted to try a content management system. I had a quick look into Drupal, Joomla and Silverstripe, and then decided to go with Drupal. 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 2016-09-26T19:25:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/script/exiftool exiftool Rename Photos Try it first with -testname: exiftool -d %Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S%%-c.%%e "-testname<CreateDate" *.jpg Then rename the files: exiftool -d %Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S%%-c.%%e "-filename<CreateDate" *.jpg Correct the Date of Photos To shift the photos 43 days, 14 hours and 55 minutes to the future: text/html 2013-02-18T14:27:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/openssl/print_all_certificates_in_a_file Print all certificates in a file This command is especially helpful if you want to use Tomcat-/Java-Keystore-Certificates with the Apache webserver. Use the -print_certs to print all the certificates and then cut the file and store each certificate in a single file. 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 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 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>