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  • Checking Letsencrypt Certificates Dates

    certbot certificates | grep "Certificate Name\|Expiry Date"

  • Show me all Block devices without the Partition definitions

    lsblk -n -o NAME,TYPE | awk '$2 == "disk" {print $1}' | grep -v '[z].*$'

  • Backup before edit

    export EDITOR=vi; if [ -f "$1" ]; then cp $1{,@"$(date +%Y%m%y_%H%M%S)"}; $EDITOR $1; fi

  • 32 or 64

    getconf LONG_BIT

  • ESXi 5 Scriptable Power Management Settings Commands

    I now use Proxmox VE

    use the tool esxcfg-advcfg

    Get the current Active Policy

    esxcfg-advcfg –get /Power/CpuPolicy

    Low Power

    esxcfg-advcfg -s low /Power/CpuPolicy

    Balanced

    esxcfg-advcfg -s dynamic /Power/CpuPolicy

    High Performance

    esxcfg-advcfg -s static /Power/CpuPolicy

    or use esxcli

    Get the current Active Policy

    esxcli system settings advanced list -o “/Power/CpuPolicy”

    Low Power

    esxcli system settings advanced set -o “/Power/CpuPolicy” –string-value “low”

    Balanced

    esxcli system settings advanced set -o “/Power/CpuPolicy” –string-value “dynamic”

    High Performance

    esxcli system settings advanced set -o “/Power/CpuPolicy” –string-value “Static”

    Remote from Linux

    ssh root@ESXi-HOSTNAME-OR-IP “esxcli system settings advanced set -o “/Power/CpuPolicy” –string-value “low””

    from Windows

    plink root@ESXi-HOSTNAME-OR-IP -l root -pw PASSWORD “esxcli system settings advanced set -o “/Power/CpuPolicy” –string-value “low””

  • VMware ESXi White Boxes

    I now use Proxmox VE

    Asus M4A89GTD PRO / VMware ESXi 5.1.0 Build 799733
AMD Phenom II X6 1075T
32 GB Memory (Corsair Vengeance 4 x 8 GB)
onBoard SATA
onBoard RTL8111E Network Controller
2 x Intel Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter
1 x Intel Pro/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter

    Asus M4A78T-E BIOS 3406 / VMware ESXi 5.0.0 Build 469512
1 x Intel Pro/1000 PT Dual Port Server Adapter
2 x Intel Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter
onBoard SATA
Dawicontrol DC-7210 RAID (2 x 1 TB SATAII Raid 1)
16 GB Memory (Corsair Vegeance PC3-12800U)
AMD Athlon II X4 620 4x 2.60GHz

    Asus M2NPV-VM / M2NPV-MX Beta BIOS 5005 / VMware ESXi 5.1.0 Build 799733
AMD Athlon 5050e Dual Core
8 GB Memory
Dawicontrol DC-7210 RAID (2 x 1 TB SATAII Raid 1)
onBoard SATA
onBoard nVidia NForce Network Controller
Intel Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter

  • Simple Showcenter 1000 Server With Apache

    You need the following File and Directory Structure

    index.php
./tmp
./media/video
./media/music
./media/picture

    index.php

    <html>
<body>
<a href="http://[IP-Address]:[Port]">Refresh</a><br>
<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', TRUE);
function get_media($dir) {
$files = array();
if ($handle = opendir($dir)) {
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
	if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
            if (is_dir("$dir/$file")) {
		$files = array_merge($files, get_media("$dir/$file"));
            } else {
		$files[] = ("$dir/$file");
	    }
	}
}
closedir($handle);
}
asort($files);
return $files;
}

# $current_path = dirname(__FILE__);
# $dir = $current_path."/media";

$dir = "media";

$media = get_media($dir);

foreach ($media as $value) {
    $file = md5($value);
    $handle = fopen("tmp/".$file,"w");
    fwrite($handle,"|0|0|[IP-Address]:[Port]/".$value."| + #13#10");
    ?> </br>
    <a href="tmp/<?php echo $file; ?>" vod="playlist"><?php echo $value; ?></a>
<?php } ?>
</body>
</html>

  • Boot WinPE From Linux PXE Server

    The information in this article may be outdated.

    Download WAIK

    Download and execute mkWinPE.cmd

    We need a DHCP and TFTP-Server

    apt-get install dhcp3-server tftpd-hpa

    edit /etc/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf

    host tftpclient {
hardware ethernet [MAC-address of the PXE client];
fixed-address [IP-address of the PXE client];
filename “Boot/pxeboot.n12”;
}

    Edit the File /etc/default/tftpd-hpa

    RUN_DAEMON=”yes”
OPTIONS=”-v -l -m /etc/default/tftpd.rules -s /tftpboot”

    Create /etc/default/tftpd.rules

    rg \\ / # Convert backslashes to slashes

    We also need the PXE Stack PXELINUX

    label winpe2 kernel /Boot/pxeboot.n12