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How to Install Rust and Cargo on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Rust and Cargo on RHEL 8

Rust is a systems programming language focused on safety, speed, and concurrency. On RHEL 8, the recommended way to install Rust is through rustup, the official Rust toolchain installer, which lets you manage multiple Rust versions and cross-compilation targets from a single tool. This approach keeps your Rust installation self-contained under your home directory and […]

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How To Monitor Server Health with Checkmk on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Monitor Server Health with Checkmk on Ubuntu 18.04

Checkmk is a monitoring solution that is both robust and simpler to install than many of its competitors. It is a self-contained software bundle that combines Nagios (a popular and open-source alerting service) with add-ons for gathering, monitoring, and graphing data. It also comes with Checkmk’s web interface — a comprehensive tool that addresses many of Nagios’s shortcomings. In this guide we will set up Checkmk and monitor two separate hosts: an Ubuntu 18.04 server and a CentOS 7 server.

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Como se Conectar a um Banco de Dados Redis — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Como se Conectar a um Banco de Dados Redis

O Redis é um datastore ou armazenamento de dados open-source de chave-valor na memória. Se você instalou o Redis localmente ou está trabalhando com uma instância remota, é necessário conectar-se a ele para executar a maioria das operações. Neste tutorial,…

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FreeBSD 12 — apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp+mod_accel+mod_deflate+ipv — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — apache+mod_ssl+mod_snmp+mod_accel+mod_deflate+ipv — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: apache — Prevent chunk-size integer overflow on platforms where sizeof(int) < sizeof(long) Related CVEs: CVE-2005-2088 CVE-2005-3352 CVE-2006-3747 Upstream summary: Apache ChangeLog reports: Integer overflow in the ap_proxy_send_fb function in proxy/proxy_util.c […]

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How to Configure Nginx Rate Limiting and Connection Throttling on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Nginx Rate Limiting and Connection Throttling on RHEL 8

Rate limiting and connection throttling are essential defences against brute-force attacks, credential stuffing, and high-volume web scrapers. Nginx provides two built-in modules — ngx_http_limit_req_module for request-rate limiting and ngx_http_limit_conn_module for connection limiting — both compiled into the default binary. On RHEL 8 these capabilities are available immediately after installing Nginx from the AppStream module stream […]

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Google Search from Java Program Example — step-by-step Programming tutorial on Progressive Robot

Google Search from Java Program Example

Sometime back I was looking for a way to search Google using Java Program. I was surprised to see that Google had a web search API but it has been deprecated long back and now there is no standard way to achieve this. Basically google search is an HTTP GET request where query parameter is […]

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FreeBSD 12 — cacti — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — cacti — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: cacti — Multiple vulnerabilities Related CVEs: CVE-2009-4032 CVE-2010-1431 CVE-2013-1434 CVE-2013-1435 CVE-2013-5588 CVE-2013-5589 CVE-2014-2326 CVE-2014-2327  +12 more Upstream summary: Cacti repo reports: security #GHSA-c5j8-jxj3-hh36: Authenticated RCE via multi-line SNMP responses security […]

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Introducción al servicio DNS de Kubernetes — step-by-step Kubernetes tutorial on Progressive Robot

Introducción al servicio DNS de Kubernetes

El sistema de nombres de dominio (DNS, por sus siglas en inglés) es un sistema que asocia varios tipos de información (como las direcciones IP) con nombres fáciles de recordar. De forma predeterminada, la mayoría de los clústeres de Kubernetes configuran automáticamente un…

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