https://old.andunix.net/ 2026-06-03T22:04:09+00:00 https://old.andunix.net/ https://old.andunix.net/_media/favicon.ico 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 2013-02-18T14:26:27+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 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 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 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 2014-04-28T08:07:54+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 2015-11-25T08:53:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2011/start_and_stop_apple_file_server_command_line Start and Stop the Apple File Server from Command Line You can use /sbin/service to start or stop the “Personal File Sharing”. Start the Apple File Server (“Personal File Sharing”): sudo /sbin/service com.apple.AppleFileServer start And likewise stop it: text/html 2015-02-11T14:42:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/openssl/download_server_certificate Download a Server Certificate First, load the certificate chain from the server: openssl s_client -showcerts -connect www.example.org:443 </dev/null This will output the whole server certificate chain. Every chertificate ist wrapped between ----- 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 2014-01-27T14:49:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/tag/homeserver homeserver Pages Bookmarks text/html 2014-01-27T14:49:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/tag/mediaserver mediaserver Pages Bookmarks 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 2013-03-01T20:36:05+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 2013-03-01T20:43:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/oracle/error 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 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 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 2015-01-29T09:15:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/openssl/print_key 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 … 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 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 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 2013-02-18T14:27:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/openssl/print_all_certificates_in_a_file 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.