https://old.andunix.net/ 2026-06-04T06:12:24+00:00 https://old.andunix.net/ https://old.andunix.net/_media/favicon.ico 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 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 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 2010-10-04T12:33:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2010/upgrade_solaris_11opensolaris_text_graphical Upgrade Solaris 11/OpenSolaris from Text to Graphical If you installed your system using the text installer, the system will only be installed with a text interface. Here is how to upgrade to a graphical system. Do the following as root (su) or with appropriate permissions ( 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 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 2016-10-01T19:54:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/linux/debian/disable_service Disable a Service To disable a service: service <service> stop update-rc.d <service> enable|disable With systemd (starting with Debian 8): systemctl disable <service> To (re)enable a service: update-rc.d <service> enable|disable service <service> stop 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 2013-02-04T22:17:20+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 2013-02-04T22:17:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/db/iso/3166-2/index ISO 3166-2 * urn:iso:std:iso:3166:-2:ed-2007:en * EN: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2> standard iso country text/html 2014-01-27T14:49:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/tag/encoding encoding Pages Bookmarks text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/db/iso/3166-2/de ISO 3166-2:DE * urn:iso:std:iso:3166:-2:ed-2007:en * DE: <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:DE> * EN: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:DE> standard iso country germany de 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 2013-02-04T22:17:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/script/iconv 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 text/html 2014-03-07T13:51:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/webdesign/urlencode URL Encoding Character URL-Code & %26 ? %3F web webdesign html http encoding reference 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 2013-09-02T20:37:01+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 2013-03-01T20:36:05+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 2013-02-04T22:17:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/solaris/exam_notes 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: 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 2013-02-18T14:26:27+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 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 2013-02-04T22:17:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/db/iso/3166-1/alpha-2 ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 * urn:iso:std:iso:3166:-1:ed-2006:en#alpha-2 * <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2> standard iso country 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 2013-02-04T22:17:36+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 2013-02-04T22:17:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/db/iso/3166-1/index ISO 3166-1 * urn:iso:std:iso:3166:-1:ed-2006:en * <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1> * <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO-3166-1-Kodierliste> standard iso country 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 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 2015-02-11T14:42:38+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 2015-10-23T12:39:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/script/variables Shell Script Variables Last Character Get the last character of $a: ${a: -1} Remove Slash from the End of a Variable Remove a trailing slash from $a: a=${a%/} scripting bash sysadmin variable 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 2013-02-04T22:17:35+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 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 2015-12-09T07:36:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/cryptography/openssl/print_certificate 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. 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 2013-03-01T17:59:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/z/relax/index ReLAX This is the project page for ReLAX. relax index * Source Code (browse source code) Blog Entries * 2009-11-27: ReLAX project project_relax scripting shell sysadmin framework text/html 2016-07-14T06:40:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/wifi_config_qrcode WiFi Config QR-Code To generate a qr-code for a wifi config, you must encode the following URL in the qr-code: WIFI:S:<SSID>;T:<WPA|WEP|>;P:<password>;; If the network is hidden, then add H:true;: WIFI:S:<SSID>;T:<WPA|WEP|>;P:<password>;H:true;; You can try it here: text/html 2013-03-03T14:10:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2011/project_pda Project PDA I'm currently working on a project called 'PDA'. PDA stands for “Personal Digital Assistant”. I used several PDAs over the last two decades, from Sharp, Psion, Palm and others. But they all were just Personal Datastorages. I always missed the text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/p/pda/index Project PDA The Project PDA aims to build a real Personal Digital Assistant. * Data Collector: Collection of API Implementations to connect to several (Web-)Services and access data there * Blackbox: Entity Storage. Stores XML objects like tasks, notes etc. * PADD: Personal Access and Data Display. Named after the Star Trek Pads, it implements the pda index 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 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 2014-02-02T11:19:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/p/dmx/protocol Serial Protocol For the communication between the host (PC) and the controller (Arduino), there is a serial protocol over USB. The protocol is line by line, with carriage return (“\n”) as end. The first character denotes the type of command or information. The following commands have been defined: 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 2013-07-03T13:03:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/linux/debian/init 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 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 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 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 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 2015-11-25T08:53:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/mac/hostname 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 * <http://osxdaily.com/2010/09/06/change-your-mac-hostname-via-terminal/> mac osx cli sysadmin text/html 2013-03-01T20:30:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/oracle/sqlplus_scripting Oracle: SQLplus Scripting To show only data in SQLplus and no header or other stuff, enter the following: SET NEWPAGE 0 SET SPACE 0 SET LINESIZE 80 SET PAGESIZE 0 SET ECHO OFF SET FEEDBACK OFF SET VERIFY OFF SET HEADING OFF SET MARKUP HTML OFF SPOOL OFF 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…