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How to Take a System Snapshot on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Take a System Snapshot on Debian 10

Introduction Debian 10 Buster is built around the ethos of stability and free software. Setting up take a system snapshot on debian 10 on Buster leverages the same proven Debian packaging system that powers millions of servers worldwide, while benefiting from the latest upstream releases included in the Buster freeze. Follow each step carefully and […]

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How To Set Up an SSL Tunnel Using Stunnel on Ubuntu — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up an SSL Tunnel Using Stunnel on Ubuntu

The Stunnel program is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper between remote client and local (inetd-startable) or remote server. It can be used to add SSL functionality to commonly used inetd daemons like POP2, POP3, and IMAP servers without any changes in the program’s code. What Stunnel basically does is that it turns any insecure TCP port into a secure encrypted port using OpenSSL package for cryptography.

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Ubuntu 16.04 — libcroco — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — libcroco — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 2 September 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5389-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-7960 CVE-2017-8834 CVE-2017-8871 CVE-2020-12825 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly accessing data structures when reading bytes from memory, which could cause a heap buffer […]

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How To Install WordPress with OpenLiteSpeed on CentOS 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install WordPress with OpenLiteSpeed on CentOS 7

WordPress is currently the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world. It allows you to easily set up flexible blogs and websites on top of a database backend, using PHP to execute scripts and process dynamic content. WordPress has a large online community for…

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Oracle Linux 8 — compat-exiv2-026 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — compat-exiv2-026 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide (ELSA-2022-1797)

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 2 September 2020 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2022-1797 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-18898 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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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS MySQL service fails to start after crash

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 1 September 2020 Affected versions: 14.04 LTS 📖 ~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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Common Problems 114978

RHEL 8 LVM Thin Pool Reaches 100 Percent Usage

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 1 September 2020 📖 ~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 & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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How to Configure Logrotate on Debian 10 — step-by-step Debian 10 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Logrotate on Debian 10

Introduction Deploying configure logrotate 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 Debian 10 Buster […]

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Alpine Linux edge — perl-app-cpanminus — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Alpine Linux edge

Alpine Linux edge — perl-app-cpanminus — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Alpine Linux edge / fixed in 1.7045-r0 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Alpine secdb entry — perl-app-cpanminus 1.7045-r0 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-16154 Upstream summary: Alpine community repository for vedge ships perl-app-cpanminus 1.7045-r0 which addresses CVE-2020-16154. Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment […]

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