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How To Manage Multiple Servers with Ansible Ad Hoc Commands — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Manage Multiple Servers with Ansible Ad Hoc Commands

With Ansible, you can use ad hoc commands to execute one instruction at a time on one or more remote servers. They are ideal to perform tasks that aren’t executed frequently, and to consult information about the remote systems that Ansible manages. In this cheatsheet guide, you’ll learn how to use ad hoc commands to manage one or more servers with Ansible, and how to perform some common tasks this way.

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How to Set Up Jaeger Distributed Tracing on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Jaeger Distributed Tracing on Debian 10

Introduction Deploying set up jaeger distributed tracing on debian 10 on a Debian 10 Buster machine is straightforward thanks to Debian’s policy-compliant packaging. Unlike rpm-based distributions, Debian stores configuration helpers in /etc/default/, uses update-rc.d for older init scripts, and provides dpkg-reconfigure for interactive package configuration. This tutorial stays on the systemd path throughout. Prerequisites Ensure […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — otrs — multiple vulnerabilities (14 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — otrs — multiple vulnerabilities (14 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2012-2582 CVE-2012-4600 CVE-2012-4751 CVE-2013-2625 CVE-2013-2637 CVE-2013-3551 CVE-2013-4088 CVE-2013-4717  +6 more Upstream summary: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Open Ticket Request System (OTRS) Help Desk […]

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How to Install Python on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Python on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Install Python on Windows Server 2012 R2 Python is one of the most widely used programming languages for DevOps automation, data processing, scripting, web services, and system administration. On Windows Server 2012 R2, Python provides a powerful complement to PowerShell, particularly for cross-platform scripts, data manipulation with pandas or NumPy, REST API clients, […]

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FreeBSD 12 — pdflib-perl — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — pdflib-perl — multiple vulnerabilities (5 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 28 January 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: tiff — buffer overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2004-0803 CVE-2004-0804 CVE-2004-0886 CVE-2004-1308 CVE-2005-1544 Upstream summary: A Gentoo Linux Security Advisory reports: Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team discovered […]

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

FreeBSD 12 — libetpan — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 28 January 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: libetpan — null dereference vulnerability in MIME parsing component Related CVEs: CVE-2017-8825 Upstream summary: rwhitworth reports: I was using American Fuzzy Lop (afl-fuzz) to fuzz input to the mime-parse test […]

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How to Configure a DSC Pull Server on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure a DSC Pull Server on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Configure a DSC Pull Server on Windows Server 2012 R2 Desired State Configuration (DSC) is a PowerShell-based configuration management platform built into Windows Server 2012 R2. In push mode, an administrator pushes configurations directly to individual nodes. In pull mode, nodes periodically contact a central Pull Server to retrieve their configuration and report […]

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FreeBSD 12 — php72-imap — security advisory — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 12

FreeBSD 12 — php72-imap — security advisory — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 28 January 2020 Affected versions: FreeBSD 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: php-imap — imap_open allows to run arbitrary shell commands via mailbox parameter Upstream summary: The PHP team reports: imap_open allows to run arbitrary shell commands via mailbox parameter. Table of […]

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