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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.

Virtual Network Visualization

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

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

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…

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:

Generate a Test Key

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-11-20T08:13:01+00:00

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…

List Open Ports

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-04-13T20:11:34+00:00

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 …

ISO 3166-2:DE

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:22+00:00

ISO 3166-2:DE * urn:iso:std:iso:3166:-2:ed-2007:en * DE: * EN: standard iso country germany de

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:

Shadows

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-07-11T06:39:41+00:00

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;

ISO 3166-2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:22+00:00

ISO 3166-2 * urn:iso:std:iso:3166:-2:ed-2007:en * EN: standard iso country

Plaintext

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:20+00:00

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 …

Git

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-12-06T10:07:22+00:00

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

ISO 3166-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:21+00:00

ISO 3166-1 * urn:iso:std:iso:3166:-1:ed-2006:en * * standard iso country

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:21+00:00

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 * urn:iso:std:iso:3166:-1:ed-2006:en#alpha-2 * standard iso country

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}\$")…

WiFi Config QR-Code

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-07-14T06:40:34+00:00

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:;T:;P:;; If the network is hidden, then add H:true;: WIFI:S:;T:;P:;H:true;; You can try it here:

Debug Server Certificate from Client

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-04-28T08:07:54+00:00

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.

Download a Server Certificate

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-02-11T14:42:38+00:00

Download a Server Certificate First, load the certificate chain from the server: openssl s_client -showcerts -connect www.example.org:443

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

SSH

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-14T13:15:34+00:00

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

Package Repositories

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

Package Repositories There's a list of multi-OS repositories at . More on IPS, the Image Package System can be found at: * . * Repository Description OpenSolaris Distribution, Releases OpenSolaris Distribution, Development Quality

exiftool

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-09-26T19:25:34+00:00

exiftool Rename Photos Try it first with -testname: exiftool -d %Y-%m-%d_%H%M%S%%-c.%%e "-testname

rmdir for OSX

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-11-25T09:43:44+00:00

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

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

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

Oracle: Resize Instance

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-01T20:38:48+00:00

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:

Print all certificates in a file

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-18T14:27:02+00:00

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.

Mercurial

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-07-15T10:39:59+00:00

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

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 []