https://old.andunix.net/ 2026-06-04T01:55:51+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 2014-04-28T09:01:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/linux/debian/cleanup_packages 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: text/html 2015-11-25T08:50:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/airport 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 text/html 2014-11-25T10:40:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/java/jax-ws_debugging 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 text/html 2015-11-25T08:59:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/macports MacPorts List Ports list requested ports: port echo requested | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | uniq list installed ports: port -qv installed Housekeeping When ports are updated, the old port is only deactivated, not uninstalled: ... autoconf @2.69_2 autoconf @2.69_3 autoconf @2.69_5 ... 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: ${HOMESSID}\$")… text/html 2013-02-04T22:18:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/z/travian/travian_map_download_script Travian Map Download Script This is my script(s) which I use to downoad the map.sql from Travian and import it to the database. config.inc # # database DB_USER="travian" # set this to your database user DB_PASS="travian" # set this to your database password DB_INST="travian" # set this to your database instance # # directories MAP_DIR=${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 2019-01-17T19:19:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/openssl/convert_key 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. text/html 2014-01-27T14:49:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/tag/export export Pages Bookmarks 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 2010-05-17T07:55:00+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 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… text/html 2014-11-20T08:13:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/openssl/generate_key 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… 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 2017-04-13T20:12:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/tag/port port Pages Bookmarks 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 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 2013-04-24T12:11:00+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 2013-02-19T14:05:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/java/jps 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 <http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/share/jps.html>. I'm using it with the parameters -l (long listing) and -m text/html 2013-10-18T08:01:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2013/welcome_back Welcome Back In 2010 I moved my blog from DokuWiki to Drupal. Today, I moved it back to DokuWiki. The reason for switching to Drupal was for the better blogging support. As I'm using this site more as Knowledge Base than a Blog, DokuWiki is the better alternative. You can still access the old site at old.andunix.net. 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 2013-03-01T20:58:12+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 2009-04-27T11:30:00+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 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. 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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: text/html 2013-02-14T13:15:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/ssh 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 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