https://old.andunix.net/ 2026-06-04T04:41:11+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 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 2013-02-04T22:17:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/solaris/etc/path_to_inst /etc/path_to_inst * path_to_inst(4) The file /etc/path_to_inst maps physical device paths to driver name and driver instance number. Example: e1000g0 "/pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@2/network@0" 0 "e1000g" solaris config device 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 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 2013-08-02T19:34:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/prog/firefox/index Firefox Start another Firefox To start another instance of firefox, use this command: firefox -P "My Profile" -no-remote For more information visit Opening a new instance of your Mozilla application with another profile in the mozillaZine Knowledge Base. mozilla firefox cli howto 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 2013-02-04T22:17:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/solaris/pkg_repositories Package Repositories There's a list of multi-OS repositories at <http://wikis.sun.com/display/IpsBestPractices/Directory+of+Package+Repositories>. More on IPS, the Image Package System can be found at: * <http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg/>. * <http://wikis.sun.com/display/IpsBestPractices/> Repository Description <http://pkg.opensolaris.org/release/> OpenSolaris Distribution, Releases <http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/> OpenSolaris Distribution, Development Quality text/html 2014-09-05T12:12:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/java/firefox_java-plugin Install the Java-Plugin for Firefox To install the Java plugin for Firefox, you have to create a symlink from Firefox's plugin directory /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/ to the file libnpjp2.so in the JRE's “lib” dir. sudo ln -s \ ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so \ /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins/libnpjp2.so text/html 2013-03-01T20:38:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/oracle/resize_instance Oracle: Resize Instance In this example, the SGA will be resized to 6GB and the PGA to 2GB. 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 2013-02-04T22:17:35+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 2017-01-04T09:33:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/sysadmin/tomcat_upload_limit Increase the Tomcat Upload Limit The “manager”-App of the Tomcats has a limit of 50MiB. This limit is defined in the file WEB-INF/web.xml within the “manager”-App: <multipart-config> <!-- 50MB max --> <max-file-size>52428800</max-file-size> <max-request-size>52428800</max-request-size> <file-size-threshold>0</file-size-threshold> </multipart-config> text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/solaris/filesystem File System File System Organization * File system organization - filesystem(5) File Systems This is a non-complete list of file systems in Solaris. * hsfs(7FS): High Sierra & ISO 9660 CD-ROM file system * lofs(7FS): loopback virtual file system * pcfs(7FS): FAT formatted file system 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 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 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 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 2014-04-22T11:34:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/code/eclipse/java_vm Specify Java VM for Eclipse To let Eclipse use the Java VM from /opt/jdk/bin/java add these two lines to the eclipse.ini in the Eclipse installation directory: -vm /opt/jdk/bin/java -vmjava Source: Eclipsepedia: eclipse.ini - Specifying the JVM eclipse java settings