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How to Install Prometheus and Grafana on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Prometheus and Grafana on RHEL 8

Prometheus and Grafana are two of the most widely adopted open-source tools for infrastructure monitoring and metrics visualization. Prometheus scrapes and stores time-series data from your systems, while Grafana turns that data into rich, interactive dashboards. Together they give RHEL 8 administrators a powerful, production-ready observability stack. This tutorial walks through installing both tools from […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — python36:3.6 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — python36:3.6 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2021-9129)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 26 January 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-9129 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-3177 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — Unbreakable Enterprise kernel — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — Unbreakable Enterprise kernel — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2020-5805)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 26 January 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-5805 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-19054 CVE-2019-19462 CVE-2020-10768 CVE-2020-10767 CVE-2020-10732 CVE-2020-12888 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – […]

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Arch Linux — ruby-addressable — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — ruby-addressable — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-202107-19 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-32740 Upstream summary: Type: denial of service. Status: Fixed. Affected: 2.7.0-3. Fixed in: 2.8.0-1. Group: AVG-2136. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — nss — security and stability fixes — required update — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — nss — security and stability fixes — required update (ELSA-2021-0538)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 January 2021 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2021-0538 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-6829 CVE-2020-12400 CVE-2020-12403 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification […]

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Debian 9 – boot is delayed by systemd-networkd-wait-online timeout

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 25 January 2021 Affected versions: Debian 9 📖 ~1 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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Arch Linux — tar — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Arch Linux

Arch Linux — tar — multiple vulnerabilities (3 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Arch Linux (rolling release) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Arch ASA ASA-201611-11 Related CVEs: CVE-2016-6321 CVE-2021-20193 CVE-2018-20482 Upstream summary: Type: arbitrary file overwrite. Status: Fixed. Affected: 1.29-1. Fixed in: 1.29-2. Group: AVG-64. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction […]

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Ubuntu 20.04 — python-rsa — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu 20.04 — python-rsa — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 January 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4478-2 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-13757 Upstream summary: USN-4478-1 fixed a vulnerability in Python-RSA. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. Original […]

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How To Migrate Redis Data with Replication on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Migrate Redis Data with Replication on Ubuntu 18.04

Replication is the practice of regularly copying data from one database to another so as to have a replica that always remains an exact duplicate of the primary instance. This tutorial outlines the process of using Redis’s built-in replication features to migrate data from one Ubuntu 18.04 server to another.

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