Have you ever wanted to mass export virtual machines? I know I have and its infuriating that the web GUI does not have this option built into it. So I went and pulled some good ol’ duct tape engineering and made a somewhat functional script for it. Firstly, we need to connect to the
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cURL is an incredibly useful tool. This article is going to focus on using it to POST authentication data to a website, such as a pfSense or Joomla instance.
So recently I ran into an issue where I needed to create a virtual disk 20TB in size. Unfortunately, XCP-ng does not allow doing this through its manager because it uses an older disk system. However, you can manually create an LVM partition and map it to the VM. Here is what you need to
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Below is a collection of useful Bash one-liners that we have come across and use semi-often (or at least often enough to not want to lose them). Honestly we mostly made this just in case we need them again and have lost them elsewhere, but hopefully they end up helping some of you as well!
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How to redirect stderr into a variable in Bash (and other Bourne shells), tcsh, fish, or oh scripts, with examples for each.
Here I’ll be going in-depth on creating an IIS site solely using PowerShell commands (CLI or bust). Specifically I’ll go over creating an FTP site, but many of the steps and logic behind them are transferable to creating any other IIS site. Commands will be in bold. You may be asking why anyone would want
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Escaping special characters is generally pretty straight forward, just throw the correct character in front of the problem, and it should solve itself. Sometimes it gets a bit weird though, and also sometimes it is difficult to find the correct way of doing something. I plan for this to be a live document that I
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