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How to Configure /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf and DNS Resolution on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf and DNS Resolution on RHEL 8

Reliable name resolution is essential for almost every networked service on a Linux server. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 gives you several places to configure how hostnames are resolved: the static /etc/hosts file, the resolver configuration in /etc/resolv.conf, the look-up order defined in /etc/nsswitch.conf, and DNS settings managed through NetworkManager. Knowing how these layers interact […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 — exempi — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu 16.04 — exempi — multiple vulnerabilities (8 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 3 July 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3668-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2017-18233 CVE-2017-18234 CVE-2017-18236 CVE-2017-18238 CVE-2018-7728 CVE-2018-7729 CVE-2018-7730 CVE-2018-7731 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Exempi incorrectly handled certain media files. If a user or automated system were […]

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How To Create a Riak Cluster on an Ubuntu VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a Riak Cluster on an Ubuntu VPS

This tutorial covers how to set up a Riak Cluster on Ubuntu VPS instances. Riak is a distributed database that offers large performance and redundancy benefits in comparison to traditional relational databases. Riak can be used to create cluster groups that can split up the workload and risk of data storage and access between multiple machines.

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — viewvc — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — viewvc — multiple vulnerabilities (2 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-2012-3356 CVE-2012-3357 Upstream summary: The remote SVN views functionality (lib/vclib/svn/svn_ra.py) in ViewVC before 1.1.15 does not properly perform authorization, which allows remote attackers to bypass […]

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Настройка облачной IDE-платформы Eclipse Theia на Ubuntu 18.04 [Краткое руководство] — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Настройка облачной IDE-платформы Eclipse Theia на Ubuntu 18.04 [Краткое руководство]

Eclipse Theia — это расширяемая облачная IDE, запущенная на удаленном сервере и доступная в браузере. Внешне она выглядит и работает наподобие Microsoft Visual Studio Code. Отличие Eclipse Theia от других облачных IDE…

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How to Install Perl and CPAN Modules on Debian 9 — step-by-step Debian 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Perl and CPAN Modules on Debian 9

Introduction How to Install Perl and CPAN Modules on Debian 9 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 9 Stretch server. Debian 9 Stretch ships with the Linux 6.12 kernel, updated toolchains, and a fully refreshed package archive — meaning version numbers, configuration file paths, and some dependency chains differ from Debian […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — k3s — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — k3s — multiple vulnerabilities (2 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-2019-1002101 CVE-2019-9946 Upstream summary: The kubectl cp command allows copying files between containers and the user machine. To copy files from a container, Kubernetes creates […]

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How To Install and Get Started with Twig on a VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Get Started with Twig on a VPS

If a PHP file becomes more complex (and it will for any application), you will have a big problem with managing the layout of your site. If you want a designer to work with it, this designer will have to search into this file which is what we want to prevent. So the solution is the separation of the presentation (layout) from the logic (programming) and the best way to do it is by using a template engine such as Twig.

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