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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.

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:

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 []

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…

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

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

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

Oracle: SPFile and PFiles

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-01T20:36:05+00:00

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:

MySQL: Backup

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:25+00:00

MySQL: Backup Export a Database # set or replace the variables $USER, $PASS and $DB mysqldump --add-drop-table -u${USER} -p${PASS} ${DB} Export all Databases individually # set or replace the variables $USER and $PASS DATE_YMD=$(date "+%Y-%m-%d") DATABASES=$(mysql --batch -u${USER} -p${PASS} mysql --execute='show databases') for db in ${DATABASES} do mysqldump --add-drop-table -u${USER} -p${PASS} ${DB} > ${DB}_${DATE_YMD}.sql & bzip2 ${DB}_${DATE_YMD}.sql & # sleep 10 # option…

Firefox Extensions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-09-02T20:37:01+00:00

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Android Backup

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-04-24T12:11:00+00:00

Android Backup To backup your device, use this command. It will automatically insert the current date in the filename: adb backup -apk -shared -all -f $(date '+%Y-%m-%d').db If you are havong problems with the connection (“adb: unable to connect for backup

Print Information about a Key

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-01-29T09:15:22+00:00

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 …

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

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.

MySQL: Create User

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-01-25T11:49:04+00:00

MySQL: Create User Create User CREATE USER '{user}'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '{passwd}'; Create User and Database * Usually, {user} == {db} CREATE USER '{user}'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '{passwd}'; GRANT USAGE ON * . * TO '{user}'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '{passwd}' WITH MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS 0 ; CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `{db}`; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `{db}` . * TO '{user}'@'%';

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

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 …

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

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}\$")…

Compare a Key with its Certificate

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-18T14:26:27+00:00

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

Solaris Manuals

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

Solaris Manuals man pages :!: Tip: You can download the whole collection of man pages as PDF. * Solaris 10 Reference Manual Collection * OpenSolaris Reference Manual Collection solaris manual reference documentation download

MySQL: Change Password

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-12-17T09:09:25+00:00

MySQL: Change Password * Replace {passwd} with the password of the user. * Replace {user} with the name of the user. GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO '{user}'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '{passwd}'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; Or you can alternatively use the following: UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('{passwd}') WHERE User='{user}'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

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

Print Information about a Certificate

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-12-09T07:36:40+00:00

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.

Cryptography

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

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

Specify Java VM for Eclipse

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-04-22T11:34:42+00:00

Specify Java VM for Eclipse To let Eclipse use the Java VM from /opt/jdk/bin/java add these two lines to the eclipse.ini in the Eclipse installation directory: -vm /opt/jdk/bin/java -vmjava Source: Eclipsepedia: eclipse.ini - Specifying the JVM eclipse java settings

DynDNS Updates without a Client

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

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…

MySQL: Grant Permissions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:26+00:00

MySQL: Grant Permissions Grant Permissions GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `{db}` . * TO '{user}'@'%'; admin database mysql sql

MySQL: Revoke Permissions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:26+00:00

MySQL: Revoke Permissions Revoke Permissions REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES ON `{db}` . * FROM '{user}'@'%'; admin database mysql sql

JAX-WS Debugging

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-11-25T10:40:31+00:00

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

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 …

Shell Script Variables

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-10-23T12:39:10+00:00

Shell Script Variables Last Character Get the last character of $a: ${a: -1} Remove Slash from the End of a Variable Remove a trailing slash from $a: a=${a%/} scripting bash sysadmin variable

MySQL: View Permissions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:26+00:00

MySQL: View Permissions View Permissions SHOW PRIVILEGES; SHOW GRANTS FOR '{user}'@'%'; admin database mysql sql

Automatic Submission of a Form if an Element is changed

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-14T08:22:05+00:00

Automatic Submission of a Form if an Element is changed To submit the form if an element changes, you can use onChange="this.form.submit()" Example

root login with bash

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

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

File System

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

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

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:

Oracle Errors

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-01T20:43:34+00:00

Oracle Errors ORA-00257: archiver error. Connect internal only, until freed. * Reason: The flash recovery area is full. * Resolution: Remove archive logs. * Resolution: Enlarge the flash recovery area. * Documentation: 10.2 11.2 database documentation error oracle reference

Oracle: List Accounts with Objects

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-01T20:26:48+00:00

Oracle: List Accounts with Objects To list all accounts (users) the objects (like tables), you can query them with: SELECT DISTINCT OWNER FROM DBA_OBJECTS ORDER BY OWNER; If you want to list all accounts, you can query them with: SELECT USERNAME FROM ALL_USERS ORDER BY USERNAME;

CSS - Cascading Stylesheets

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-07-11T06:43:48+00:00

CSS - Cascading Stylesheets Pages css index Links German CSS Reference Links: * SELFHTML - CSS Kurzreferenz: im DEV Netz de.selfhtml.org * CSS 4 you - CSS-Referenz: www.css4you.de More CSS Bookmarks: webdesign css

SSH

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-11-30T12:09:18+00:00

SSH SSH with Public Key Authentication only /etc/ssh/sshd_config Make sure that your SSH config file (sshd_config) contains these settings: PubkeyAuthentication yes PasswordAuthentication no If you changed the config, make sure to restart sshd to activate ist:

/etc

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

/etc This is a collection of descriptions of Solaris config files (in the /etc directory). etc index

Oracle

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-08-12T06:56:24+00:00

Oracle Pages oracle index Bookmarks * Oracle Database Online Documentation 10g Release 2 (10.2) * Oracle Database Online Documentation 11g Release 2 (11.2) oracle topic

MySQL: Create Database

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:25+00:00

MySQL: Create Database Create Database CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `{db}`; Create Database and Grant Rights to a User CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `{db}`; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `{db}` . * TO '{user}'@'%'; admin database mysql sql