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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:

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.

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

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.

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.

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:

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

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}\$")…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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…

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

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

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