https://old.andunix.net/ 2026-06-04T03:33:38+00:00 https://old.andunix.net/ https://old.andunix.net/_media/favicon.ico 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 2013-02-04T22:17:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/android/apps Android Apps Here are some links to Android Apps I'm using. Where available, there are both links, the paid and the free version. * Barcode Scanner * DavDrive / DavDrive Lite * DGT GTD & To-do List * Gleeo Time Tracker * K-9 Mail * KeePassDroid * Note Everything * Öffi - ÖPNV Auskunft * WebDAV Navigator / WebDAV Navigator Lite * Zeiterfassung Pro / Zeiterfassung android app list recommendation 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 2013-02-04T22:18:02+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 2013-02-04T22:18:02+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 2013-02-04T22:17:37+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 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 2014-04-28T08:07:54+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 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 2009-02-18T19:25:00+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 2013-07-11T06:39:41+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 2013-07-11T07:08:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/webdesign/css/border Border Image Border border-image: url("glow_border.png") 30 30 30 30 stretch stretch; border-width: 12px; border-style: solid; webdesign web design css 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 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 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 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 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 2016-01-25T11:49:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mysql/user/create 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}'@'%'; text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/android/index Android android index Android Bookmarks android text/html 2015-02-11T09:25:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2014/foldersync_and_owncloud_7 Workaround for FolderSync with ownCloud 7 The Android App “FolderSync” stopped working when I upgraded my ownCloud to Version 7. FolderSync always showed “Bad Request” when testing the connection. ANd when I looked into the Apache log, the requests were closed with text/html 2014-01-27T14:49:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/tag/android android Pages Bookmarks 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 2014-01-27T14:49:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/tag/bandwidth bandwidth Pages Bookmarks text/html 2014-01-27T14:49:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/tag/video video Pages Bookmarks 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 2014-01-27T14:49:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/tag/guide guide Pages Bookmarks text/html 2014-01-27T14:49:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/tag/idea idea Pages Bookmarks 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 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 2020-08-29T19:05:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/index andunix.net Tags Recent Changes 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 2013-03-01T20:36:05+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 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 2009-10-26T11:36:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2009/geocache_gc1vy11 Found Geocache GC1VY11 "Ringpromenade" Yesterday, I visited my first geocache. For those interested, here is evidence: [geocache logbook] geocache gps outdoor text/html 2013-04-24T12:11:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/android/backup 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 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 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 2013-02-18T14:26:27+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 2013-02-04T22:17:21+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 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 2013-02-04T22:18:02+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 2013-12-17T09:09:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mysql/user/password 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; 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 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 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 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 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 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 2013-03-01T20:40:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/oracle/exp Oracle: EXP Export all Objects from an Account Enter the account name insteand of {user}. exp USERID=\'/ as sysdba\' FILE={user}.dmp FULL=N OWNER={user} admin exp oracle 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 2013-02-18T13:56:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/openssl/index OpenSSL openssl index cryptography howto guide openssl security text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mysql/database/backup 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…