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Here's several tutorials, mini-howtos and technotes. You can use thoses documentations in your procedures at work if you like but please mention author's copyright according that
BSD Documentation Licence
. I particularly recommend those ones,
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Configure mail virtual hosts with the Postoffice SMTP Daemon
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How to configure the NetBSD system
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How to configure the pkgsrc portable package system
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How to configure and use XEN
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How to configure and use XEN : Redhat specifics
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How to configure and use XEN : NetBSD specifics
Take your pick ! (
feedback
is appreciated)
Audio
The FLAC audio format
How to make MP3 audio files on Windows and UNIX
A list of MP3 players
The Winamp audio player
Benchmarking
A list benchmarking tools for UNIX
Communication programs
The original terminal IRC client : ircII
The usable terminal IRC client : Irssi
Communication
Notes on IMPI
Databases
How to configure MySQL
The OpenLDAP server and tools
Notes on Oracle (draft)
Configure phpMyAdmin
Development
AWK notes
How to install Bugzilla
Notes on making a shell CGI
.NET tips
Korn Shell programming
Notes on sofware licencing
KSH / ImageMagick powered Photo gallery
Some sed examples
Editors
The original VIsual editor : vi
Emulators for other operating systems
NetBSD/vax on SIMH
Games
UNIX philosophy & sayings
Electronic mail
How to configure fetchmail
How to configure getmail
How to configure UW-IMAPD
Configure mail virtual hosts with the Postoffice SMTP Daemon
How to configure Procmail : the autonomous mail processor
Tips on using the sendmail SMTP server and tools
How to optimize Mozilla Thunderbird
Miscellaneous
How configure the screen terminal window manager
Multimedia
MPEG4 encoding
Networking
Links about BIND
IP calculations
The NetBSD FTP Daemon (tnftpd, formaly known as lukemftpd)
How to configure an FTP mirror
Nagios installation and configuration
How to configure NFS
How to make a PXE install server
Notes on using Rsync
Samba configuration
Security
Security Advisories
How to configure the IP Filter firewall
Notes on configuring netfilter/iptables on Redhat systems
tcpdump & nmap
Shells
How to configure the Bash shell
Configure the KSH Shell
Note on KSH88
How to configure more specificly KSH93
How to configure more specificly PDKSH
How to use a proxy at the UNIX prompt
System (cross unices)
How to organize simple backups
Note on bits versus bytes
Some inter-UNIX tips
Notes on installing Cygwin
Install from scratch
A little list of log rotation techniques
How to configure Logwatch on Redhat systems
How to initialize the MBR from a UNIX prompt
How to use the pwgen Password generator
(FR) Recuperation mot de passe UNIX
System - AIX
Some notes and tips on maintaining AIX systems
System - BSD
How to configure the ccd concatenated disk driver
A few notes on using FreeBSD
How to configure the NetBSD system
OpenBSD Kernel compilation
How to configure the pkgsrc portable package system
A few notes on configuring RAIDFrame
System - HP/UX
Notes on using HP/UX
System - Linux
Network interface bonding
Boot recovery
A few inter-Linux tips
Notes on configuring HBA fibre channel cards
How to configure Redhat systems
Notes on configuring Slackware Linux
Notes on using Novell SLES
System - Solaris
Notes on using Solaris
Notes on maintaining Solaris 10
System - VMware
(FR) Proce'dure de mise `a jour de VMware ESX
(FR) Virtualisation P2V Linux
(FR) Notes et recette VMware VI
Notes about VMware ESX
Notes about VMware server version 2
Tips on installing and configuring VMware Workstation virtual machines
(FR) How to configure VMware Consolidated Backup
System - Windows
A list of recommended software for Windows
Windows Notes
System - XEN
How to configure and use XEN
XEN Gentoo specifics
How to configure and use XEN : NetBSD specifics
How to configure and use XEN : Redhat specifics
XEN Novell SLES specifics
How to migrate a Linux physical machine to a XEN virtual machine
X11 window managers, configurations, and themes
The BBDock application launcher
The Blackbox window manager
How to configure the TWM window manager
The World Wide Web
How to configure Apache
Content Management Systems
List of .NET frameworks and CMS engines
Embedded web tools
Notes on configuring Mozilla Firefox
Web design tips & examples
How to configure the Wordpress CMS
The X window system
How to configure the X11 resources
Mon Sep 1 11:48:21 CEST 2008
© 2008 Pierre-Philipp Braun