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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.

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 []

Print Information about a Key

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-01-29T09:15:22+00:00

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 …

Disable a Service

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-10-01T19:54:34+00:00

Disable a Service To disable a service: service stop update-rc.d enable|disable With systemd (starting with Debian 8): systemctl disable To (re)enable a service: update-rc.d enable|disable service stop

Plaintext

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:20+00:00

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 …

ISO 3166-2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:22+00:00

ISO 3166-2 * urn:iso:std:iso:3166:-2:ed-2007:en * EN: standard iso country

ISO 3166-2:DE

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:22+00:00

ISO 3166-2:DE * urn:iso:std:iso:3166:-2:ed-2007:en * DE: * EN: standard iso country germany de

Firefox Extensions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-09-02T20:37:01+00:00

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.

Oracle: SPFile and PFiles

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-01T20:36:05+00:00

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:

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

Command Line Audio

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-10T21:06:49+00:00

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"

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:

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

Download a Server Certificate

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-02-11T14:42:38+00:00

Download a Server Certificate First, load the certificate chain from the server: openssl s_client -showcerts -connect www.example.org:443

URL Encoding

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-03-07T13:51:10+00:00

URL Encoding Character URL-Code & %26 ? %3F web webdesign html http encoding reference

ISO 3166-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:21+00:00

ISO 3166-1 * urn:iso:std:iso:3166:-1:ed-2006:en * * standard iso country

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

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:21+00:00

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 * urn:iso:std:iso:3166:-1:ed-2006:en#alpha-2 * standard iso country

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.

root login with bash

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:35+00:00

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

Oracle Errors

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-01T20:43:34+00:00

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

Print Information about a Certificate

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-12-09T07:36:40+00:00

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.

Oracle: SQLplus Scripting

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-01T20:30:32+00:00

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

WiFi Config QR-Code

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-07-14T06:40:34+00:00

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:;T:;P:;; If the network is hidden, then add H:true;: WIFI:S:;T:;P:;H:true;; You can try it here:

AirPort Command Line Interface

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-11-25T08:50:59+00:00

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

init

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-07-03T13:03:11+00:00

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

Oracle: EXP

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-01T20:40:57+00:00

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

Set a Mac's Hostname

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-11-25T08:53:23+00:00

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 * mac osx cli sysadmin

Shell Script Variables

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-10-23T12:39:10+00:00

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

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…

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…