https://old.andunix.net/ 2026-06-03T21:19:09+00:00 https://old.andunix.net/ https://old.andunix.net/_media/favicon.ico 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 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 2013-03-03T14:10:12+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 2013-09-02T20:37:01+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 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 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 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 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 2013-02-18T14:26:27+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 2013-02-04T22:17:34+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 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 2014-01-27T14:38:19+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 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 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 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 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 2013-03-15T09:42:18+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