https://old.andunix.net/ 2026-06-03T23:24:30+00:00 https://old.andunix.net/ https://old.andunix.net/_media/favicon.ico 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 2013-02-03T11:12:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/p/andunix-tool/index andunix-tool Usage: java -jar andunix-tool.jar <Global Options> <Command> <Command Options> Tip: I suggest to create a shell-script to ease the java starting: #! /bin/sh # Change this to the directory in which you put ''andunix-tool.jar'' # and the corresponding ''lib'' directory ANDUNIX_TOOL_DIR=${HOME}/opt/andunix-tool # Use this to define the path to your Java-Intallation JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk exec ${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java -jar ${ANDUNIX_TOOL_DIR}/andunix-tool.jar $* text/html 2018-12-06T10:07:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/code/git Git Basics Init Repository Standard: git init [DIR] Bare: git init --bare [DIR] Log See commits between branches: git log master..develop Branches List Branches git branch Switch Branch git checkout BRANCH Delete Branch git branch -d BRANCH Delete Remote Branch 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 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 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 2013-03-15T09:42:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2009/travian_village_planner Travian Village Planner Currently I'm working on a village planner for Travian. It was inspired by the village planner at <http://www.ebav.co.uk/travian/>, but I was missing a possibility to save and reference my village. So the main feature was saving the village to a bookmark. This is done by the 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 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 2009-07-21T17:52:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2009/virtual_network_visualization 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 dladm show-link and generates a dot-File, which then can be rendered using 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 2013-09-02T20:37:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/prog/firefox/extensions 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. text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/solaris/dladm2dot 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 text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/plaintext Plaintext The plaintext is unencrypted and unsigned text. It's the payload which then get's signed and/or encrypted. Wikipedia defines plaintext as: " In cryptography, plaintext is information a sender wishes to transmit to a receiver. Cleartext is often used as a synonym. Before the computer era, plaintext most commonly meant message text in the language of the communicating parties. Plaintext has reference to the operation of cryptographic algorithms, usually encryption algorithms, and is … 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 2009-08-11T10:16:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2009/opensolaris_virtualbox_mount_shared_folder OpenSolaris / VirtualBox: Mount Shared Folder To mount a shared folder in a OpenSolaris guest in VirtualBox, you have to install the Guest Additions and then mount the file system type vboxfs. The Usage is: mount -F vboxfs <share> <mountpoint> 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 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 2013-03-01T20:36:05+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 2013-03-12T21:41:05+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 2014-02-02T12:02:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/p/dmx/program Program The controller (Arduino) can be programmed to animate the value on a DMX channel from one value to another. The contoller has an program counter which is counted up by one every iteration. The iterations will be 5ms (200Hz), 10ms (100 Hz) or 20ms (50 Hz) long. The value of the program counter ist exchanged between the host an the controller with the command text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/z/relax/api/base/base-ssh-umount base-ssh-umount Unmounts a remote share which had been mounted using sshfs/fuse (sftp). Usage base-ssh-mount SERVICE * SERVICE: A key of a service definition in the repository. Returns No output. 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 2013-03-10T21:06:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/mac_command_line_audio 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" 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 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 2009-02-18T19:25:00+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 2013-04-24T12:11:00+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 2013-02-04T22:17:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/script/root_login_with_bash 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 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 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 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} -…