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Setting the Timezone

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-08T10:45:00+00:00

Setting the Timezone The timezone is stored in the file /etc/timezone. Check the Timezone cat /etc/timezone Example: # cat /etc/timezone Europe/London Set the Timezone You can use vi: vi /etc/timezone Or set it directy: echo "Europe/Berlin" > /etc/timezone

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 []

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

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

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.

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

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…

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

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

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…

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 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.

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

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:

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}\$")…

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…