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How To Use Fabric To Automate Administration Tasks And Deployments — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Fabric To Automate Administration Tasks And Deployments

In this the cloud provider article, the system administration and application deployment streamlining library “Fabric” is our subject. We will learn how to install this wonderful tool, as well as see how easy things can become by simply automating mundane management tasks that would otherwise require jumping through hoops with bash hacks and hard-to-maintain, complex scripts.

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How to Manage Users and Groups with useradd, groupadd and passwd on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Manage Users and Groups with useradd, groupadd and passwd on RHEL 7

How to Manage Users and Groups with useradd, groupadd and passwd on RHEL 7 User and group management is one of the most fundamental administrative tasks on any Linux system. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, the tools for creating, modifying and maintaining user accounts are robust, flexible and follow the standard POSIX conventions. Whether […]

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FreeBSD 12 — de-openoffice — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — de-openoffice — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: openoffice — DOC document heap overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0752 CVE-2005-0941 Upstream summary: AD-LAB reports that a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in OpenOffice's handling of DOC documents. When reading […]

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How to Install MongoDB on Debian 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install MongoDB on Debian 8

MongoDB is a free and open-source NoSQL document database used commonly in modern web applications. This tutorial will help you set up MongoDB on your server for use in a production application environment. You’ll install MongoDB and configure firewall…

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FreeBSD 12 — f2c — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — f2c — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: f2c — insecure temporary files Related CVEs: CAN-2005-0017 Upstream summary: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña reports two temporary file vulnerability within f2c. The vulnerabilities are caused due to weak temporary file handling. […]

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SLES 15 — eog — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 15

SLES 15 — eog — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2016:2532-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2013-7447 CVE-2016-6855 Upstream summary: Integer overflow in the gdk_cairo_set_source_pixbuf function in gdk/gdkcairo.c in GTK+ before 3.9.8, as used in eom, gnome-photos, eog, gambas3, thunar, pinpoint, […]

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How to Configure Redis Cluster and Sentinel on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Redis Cluster and Sentinel on RHEL 8

Redis provides two high-availability mechanisms: Sentinel for automatic failover on a primary-replica setup, and Cluster for horizontal partitioning across multiple nodes. Both are production-grade solutions supported on RHEL 8 through the EPEL 8 repository or directly from the Redis package. Understanding when to use each helps you design a topology that meets your durability and […]

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Como Instalar e Configurar o VNC no Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Como Instalar e Configurar o VNC no Ubuntu 16.04

VNC, ou “Virtual Network Computing”, é um sistema de conexão que lhe permite utilizar o seu teclado e mouse para interagir com um ambiente gráfico de desktop em um servidor remoto. Ele torna mais fácil gerenciar arquivos, software e configurações em um servidor remoto para…

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