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Windows Server 2019 — Static routes lost after reboot due to persistent store misconfiguration in Server 2019 — Fix & Prevention

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 25 July 2020 Affected versions: Windows Server 2019 📖 ~2 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution — Primary Fix Solution — Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors […]

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Recommended Steps For New FreeBSD 12.0 Servers — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Recommended Steps For New FreeBSD 12.0 Servers

When setting up a new FreeBSD server, there are a number of optional steps you can take to get your server into a more production-friendly state. In this guide, we will go over some of the most common examples. We will cover how to create a firewall that denies most traffic, ensure that your server’s time zone accurately reflects its location, and set up NTP polling to keep the server’s time accurate. Finally, we will demonstrate how to add some extra swap space to your server.

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How To Use Cron to Automate Tasks on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Cron to Automate Tasks on Ubuntu 18.04

Cron is a time-based job scheduling daemon found in Unix-like operating systems, including Linux distributions. This guide provides an overview of how to schedule tasks using cron’s special syntax on a machine running Ubuntu 18.04. It also goes over a few shortcuts one can use to make job schedules easier to write and understand.

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Ubuntu 20.04 — pcre3 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — pcre3 — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 July 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5425-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-20838 CVE-2020-14155 Upstream summary: Yunho Kim discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled memory when handling certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications […]

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OpenBSD 7.6 — ssh — errata 013_ssh — reliability fix — syspatch and remediation — diagnosis and fix on OpenBSD 7.6

OpenBSD 7.6 — ssh — errata 013_ssh — reliability fix — syspatch and remediation

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: OpenBSD 7.6 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: OpenBSD 7.6 errata 013_ssh Errata topic: Security: ssh (All architectures) Issued: April 9, 2025 Upstream summary: sshd(8) fix the DisableForwarding directive, which was failing to disable X11 forwarding and agent forwarding as documented. Table […]

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

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

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 July 2020 Affected versions: SLES 15 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE security advisory (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2020-5291 CVE-2019-12439 Upstream summary: Bubblewrap (bwrap) before version 0.4.1, if installed in setuid mode and the kernel supports unprivileged user namespaces, then the `bwrap –userns2` […]

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How to Install WooCommerce on SLES 15 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install WooCommerce on SLES 15

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Install WooCommerce on SLES 15 on SLES 15. SLES 15 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Prerequisites Ensure your SLES 15 system is up to date: zypper refresh && […]

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Установка Composer в Ubuntu 20.04 [Краткое руководство] — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Установка Composer в Ubuntu 20.04 [Краткое руководство]

В этом кратком руководстве мы расскажем об установке Composer на сервере под управлением Ubuntu 20.04. Более детальный вариант настоящего руководства с подробным разъяснениями каждого шага можно найти в [статье «Установка и настройка Composer в Ubuntu…

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