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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 []

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"

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

Increase the Tomcat Upload Limit

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-01-04T09:33:36+00:00

Increase the Tomcat Upload Limit The “manager”-App of the Tomcats has a limit of 50MiB. This limit is defined in the file WEB-INF/web.xml within the “manager”-App:

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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.

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.

Oracle: Recovery Manager

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-01T20:24:52+00:00

Oracle: Recovery Manager Start Recovery Manager rman target / Delete Archive Logs Delete all archive logs but keep the last 45 days: DELETE ARCHIVELOG ALL COMPLETED BEFORE 'SYSDATE -45'; To remove archive logs older than 3 days without prompting, e.g. via cron, after backup run:

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.

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:

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.

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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…

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

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:

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

Convert a Key

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-01-17T19:19:12+00:00

Convert a Key Convert P12 to Java Keystore keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore testkey.p12 -srcstoretype pkcs12 -srcalias 1 -destkeystore testkey.jks -deststoretype jks -destalias testkey You can add -deststorepass PASSWORD to set the password on the command line. If you don't, keytool will ask you for a password.

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

Set the Timezone on Debian

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:38+00:00

Set the Timezone on Debian Just run the following command as root (use su or sudo): dpkg-reconfigure tzdata sysadmin linux debian timezone configure

Cursor Size

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-07-12T09:43:10+00:00

Cursor Size To change the mouse cursor size in GNOME, use this command. Substitute the value 32 with your prefered size. gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-size 32 desktop gnome linux mouse cursor settings

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

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

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

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