https://old.andunix.net/ 2026-06-03T19:33:29+00:00 https://old.andunix.net/ https://old.andunix.net/_media/favicon.ico 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 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 2013-03-01T20:58:12+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 2014-05-16T06:36:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/linux/disable_core_dumps Disable Core Dumps To disable core dumps create a file /etc/security/limits.d/no_core_dumps with the content * hard core 0: echo '* hard core 0' > /etc/security/limits.d/no_core_dumps Based on the “Nix Craft” article Linux Disable Core Dumps. linux sysadmin admin config 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 2014-01-27T14:38:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/blog/2014/simulating_slow_network_connections_with_trickle Simulating slow network connections with trickle You can limit the downlink of a Firefox browser to 512 KB/s with this command: trickle -d 512 /usr/bin/firefox -no-remote -P test More informations can be found on these pages: * trickle Homepage * Trickle in the Ubunutuuser Wiki (german) 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 2013-03-01T20:30:32+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 2015-11-30T12:09:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/info/sysadmin/ssh SSH SSH with Public Key Authentication only /etc/ssh/sshd_config Make sure that your SSH config file (sshd_config) contains these settings: PubkeyAuthentication yes PasswordAuthentication no If you changed the config, make sure to restart sshd to activate ist: text/html 2013-02-04T22:17:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/z/relax/api/base/base-ssh-mount base-ssh-mount Mounts a remote share using sshfs/fuse (sftp). Usage base-ssh-mount SERVICE * SERVICE: A key of a service definition in the repository. Returns No output. 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 2013-02-04T22:17:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://old.andunix.net/z/relax/api/base/base-repo-get-value base-repo-get-value Loads a service configuration from the repository and outputs a single value (for the given key) to STDOUT. Usage base-repo-get-value SERVICE KEY * SERVICE: A key of a service definition in the repository. * KEY: The key for the value in the service definition to output. 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 2013-02-04T22:17:32+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.