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DynDNS Updates without a Client

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:34+00:00

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…

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

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 []

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

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

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

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.

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 …

Git

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-12-06T10:07:22+00:00

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

MySQL: Change Password

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-12-17T09:09:25+00:00

MySQL: Change Password * Replace {passwd} with the password of the user. * Replace {user} with the name of the user. GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO '{user}'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '{passwd}'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; Or you can alternatively use the following: UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('{passwd}') WHERE User='{user}'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Increase the Tomcat Upload Limit

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-01-04T09:33:36+00:00

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:

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MySQL: Create User

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-01-25T11:49:04+00:00

MySQL: Create User Create User CREATE USER '{user}'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '{passwd}'; Create User and Database * Usually, {user} == {db} CREATE USER '{user}'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '{passwd}'; GRANT USAGE ON * . * TO '{user}'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '{passwd}' WITH MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS 0 ; CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `{db}`; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `{db}` . * TO '{user}'@'%';

MacPorts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-11-25T08:59:36+00:00

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 ...