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Formatting Syntax

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-09-15T19:10:57+00:00

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

DokuWiki

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-09-15T19:10:57+00:00

DokuWiki wiki:dokuwiki DokuWiki is a simple to use and highly versatile Open Source wiki software that doesn't require a database. It is loved by users for its clean and readable Formatting Syntax. The ease of maintenance, backup and integration makes it an administrator's favorite. Built in

How To Create a Moveable VM with VirtualBox

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2010-05-17T07:55:00+00:00

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.

IPS Repository Appliance

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2010-10-27T12:36:00+00:00

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.

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"

Cleanup Packages

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-04-28T09:01:22+00:00

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:

Compare directories

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-09-19T12:34:39+00:00

Compare directories For each of the directories, generate a digest file: find DIR -type f -exec shasum {} + | LC_ALL=C sort -d -k 2 > shasums.txt It's important to use LC_ALL=C and the option -d of sort, to get compareable results on different machines.

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.

Print all certificates in a file

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-18T14:27:02+00:00

Print all certificates in a file This command is especially helpful if you want to use Tomcat-/Java-Keystore-Certificates with the Apache webserver. Use the -print_certs to print all the certificates and then cut the file and store each certificate in a single file.

File System

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:36+00:00

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

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:

Memory Usage of a Solaris Container (Zone)

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2010-04-21T08:17:00+00:00

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.

Project Idea: WikiTable

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-04-27T11:30:00+00:00

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.

JAX-WS Debugging

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-11-25T10:40:31+00:00

JAX-WS Debugging If you use the builtin JAX-WS implementation and want to see the SOAP requests and responses, you have to turn on the “dump” option in the transport pipe. The system property to set depends on your Java version. com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.dump=true com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.dump=true com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.dump=true com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.dump=true

Set the Timezone on Debian

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:38+00:00

Set the Timezone on Debian Just run the following command as root (use su or sudo): dpkg-reconfigure tzdata sysadmin linux debian timezone configure

Simulating slow network connections with trickle

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-01-27T14:38:19+00:00

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)

andunix-tool

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-03T11:12:56+00:00

andunix-tool Usage: java -jar andunix-tool.jar Tip: I suggest to create a shell-script to ease the java starting: #! /bin/sh # Change this to the directory in which you put ''andunix-tool.jar'' # and the corresponding ''lib'' directory ANDUNIX_TOOL_DIR=${HOME}/opt/andunix-tool # Use this to define the path to your Java-Intallation JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk exec ${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java -jar ${ANDUNIX_TOOL_DIR}/andunix-tool.jar $*

Start and Stop the Apple File Server from Command Line

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-11-25T08:53:41+00:00

Start and Stop the Apple File Server from Command Line You can use /sbin/service to start or stop the “Personal File Sharing”. Start the Apple File Server (“Personal File Sharing”): sudo /sbin/service com.apple.AppleFileServer start And likewise stop it:

Cursor Size

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-07-12T09:43:10+00:00

Cursor Size To change the mouse cursor size in GNOME, use this command. Substitute the value 32 with your prefered size. gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface cursor-size 32 desktop gnome linux mouse cursor settings

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…

Firefox

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-08-02T19:34:46+00:00

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

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;

Set PHP Variables in .htaccess Files

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2010-04-29T14:07:00+00:00

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.

Specify Java VM for Eclipse

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-04-22T11:34:42+00:00

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

Automatic Submission of a Form if an Element is changed

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-14T08:22:05+00:00

Automatic Submission of a Form if an Element is changed To submit the form if an element changes, you can use onChange="this.form.submit()" Example

ZFS Playground

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-08-11T15:06:00+00:00

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.

Command Line Tools Used in My Scripts

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

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

Make your Mac feel at Home

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

Make your Mac feel at Home A small snippet from one of my scripts which tests whether your Mac is in the given (home) WLAN. # # Path to 'airport' executeable, as of Mac OS X 10.5. AIRPORT="/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport" # # Set this to your Home WLAN SSID (name): HOMESSID="mycastle" # # Get SSID info from 'airport' and search for $HOMESSID SSID=$(${AIRPORT} --getinfo | grep ' SSID:') SSID=$(echo ${SSID} | grep "^SSID: ${HOMESSID}\$")…

Setting the Timezone

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-03-08T10:45:00+00:00

Setting the Timezone The timezone is stored in the file /etc/timezone. Check the Timezone cat /etc/timezone Example: # cat /etc/timezone Europe/London Set the Timezone You can use vi: vi /etc/timezone Or set it directy: echo "Europe/Berlin" > /etc/timezone

Dice Roller

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-02-18T19:25:00+00:00

Dice Roller I programmend a small dice roller in javascript. You enter the number of dice, sides and the offset and press the button “roll”. The script shows the individual dice and the resulting sum. For convenience, there is a second form where you can just enter the number of dice and press the butten for the type of dice. At the bottom, there are some links of six- and eightsided dice, which are often needed in roleplaying games. You can also create bookmarks for dice, e.g.

Android Backup

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-04-24T12:11:00+00:00

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

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

Solaris: List Devices

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:17:37+00:00

Solaris: List Devices To list the system's devices, you can use the following commands: * dmesg * format * prtconf * sysdef solaris sysadmin device cli admin

Welcome to your new DokuWiki

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-09-15T19:10:57+00:00

Welcome to your new DokuWiki Congratulations, your wiki is now up and running. Here are a few more tips to get you started. Enjoy your work with DokuWiki, -- the developers Create your first pages Your wiki needs to have a start page. As long as it doesn't exist, this link will be red:

Travian Map Download Script

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-02-04T22:18:02+00:00

Travian Map Download Script This is my script(s) which I use to downoad the map.sql from Travian and import it to the database. config.inc # # database DB_USER="travian" # set this to your database user DB_PASS="travian" # set this to your database password DB_INST="travian" # set this to your database instance # # directories MAP_DIR=${HOME}/opt/travian DUMP_DIR=/srv/glassfish/domains/domain1/docroot/sql # # executables MYSQL="/srv/mysql/bin/mysql --default-character-set=utf8 -u${DB_USER} -…