Welcome
About this website
Documentation for Open Source software is often presented in the form of a HOWTO: a set of instructions that tell you how to use the product. A miniHOWTO is a shortened HOWTO that covers the main points only, and a microHOWTO is shorter still.
On this website each microHOWTO:
- provides instructions for a single defined task;
- includes advice about testing and troubleshooting;
- lists the systems on which it has been tested; and
- is presented in a standard format.
Recent Additions
| 2013-05-14 | Perform an unattended installation of a Debian package |
| 2013-05-04 | Test whether the value of an SQL expression is NULL |
| 2013-04-29 | Prevent a process from terminating when writing to a broken pipe |
| 2013-04-27 | Ignore SIGPIPE without affecting other threads in a process |
| 2013-04-14 | Build a shared library using GCC |
| 2013-03-29 | Capture the output of a child process in C |
| 2013-03-24 | Reap zombie processes using a SIGCHLD handler |
| 2013-03-05 | Determine whether SELinux is enabled |
| 2013-01-29 | LVM (Logical Volume Manager) Tutorial |
| 2013-01-20 | Round towards minus infinity when dividing integers in C or C++ |
| 2012-12-31 | Send an email using netcat |
| 2012-12-15 | Implement port knocking using iptables |
Popular microHOWTOs
| 2011-01-29 | Increase the size of an ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem |
| 2010-11-25 | Configure an Ethernet interface as a VLAN trunk (Debian) |
| 2011-01-23 | Configure BIND as a slave DNS server |
| 2010-12-19 | Connect to a MySQL database using Perl DBI |
| 2011-03-30 | Change the MTU of a network interface |
| 2011-03-13 | Reduce the size of an LVM logical volume |
| 2010-12-01 | Configure an Ethernet interface as a VLAN trunk (Red Hat) |
| 2010-12-13 | Connect to a PostgreSQL database using Perl DBI |
| 2011-01-07 | Mirror a Subversion repository |
| 2012-01-14 | Make the configuration of iptables persistent (Debian) |
| 2011-01-30 | Increase the size of an LVM logical volume |
| 2011-03-16 | Reduce the size of an ext2, ext3 or ext4 filesystem |