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RHEL 10 – chrony sources unreachable because firewalld egress rules block NTP – Fix & Prevention

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 24 October 2025 Affected versions: RHEL 10 📖 ~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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How to Install Promtail on Debian 13 — step-by-step Debian 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Promtail on Debian 13

Introduction Debian 13 Trixie is built around the ethos of stability and free software. Setting up install promtail on Trixie leverages the same proven Debian packaging system that powers millions of servers worldwide, while benefiting from the latest upstream releases included in the Trixie freeze. Follow each step carefully and the resulting configuration will persist […]

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CentOS Stream 10 — buildah — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on CentOS Stream 10

CentOS Stream 10 — buildah — multiple vulnerabilities (6 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 24 October 2025 Affected versions: CentOS Stream 10 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: AlmaLinux/RHEL advisory ALSA-2026:3297 Related CVEs: CVE-2025-61726 CVE-2025-61729 CVE-2025-68121 CVE-2025-47913 CVE-2025-52881 CVE-2025-58183 Upstream summary: The buildah package provides a tool for facilitating building OCI container images. Among other things, buildah enables you to: Create […]

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How To Use ProxySQL as a Load Balancer for MySQL on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use ProxySQL as a Load Balancer for MySQL on Ubuntu 16.04

ProxySQL is an open-source MySQL proxy server which can improve performance by distributing traffic among a pool of multiple database servers and also improve availability by automatically failing over to a standby if a database server fails. In this guide, you will set up ProxySQL as a load balancer for multiple MySQL servers with automatic failover.

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SLES 12 — clamav — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — clamav — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 15–90 min  Last verified: 24 October 2025 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2023:0453-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2023-20032 CVE-2025-20260 CVE-2024-20505 CVE-2024-20380 CVE-2023-40477 CVE-2023-20197 CVE-2022-20771 CVE-2022-20785  +12 more Upstream summary: On Feb 15, 2023, the following vulnerability in the ClamAV scanning library was […]

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How to Install and Use Screen on an Ubuntu Cloud Server — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Use Screen on an Ubuntu Cloud Server

In this article, we will discuss how to install and use “screen”, a tool that allows you to manage multiple shell sessions inside a single terminal. The screen program is very useful for multi-tasking in an ssh environment, due to its ability to resume terminal sessions and perform multiple-concurrent tasks.

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How to Configure chrony for NTP Time Sync on Debian 13 — step-by-step Debian 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure chrony for NTP Time Sync on Debian 13

Introduction Deploying configure chrony for ntp time sync on a Debian 13 Trixie 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 Before you begin, […]

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How to Install and Configure Ansible on Rocky Linux 9 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Ansible on Rocky Linux 9

Configuration management systems are designed to make controlling large numbers of servers accessible for admins and operations teams. While there are many popular configuration management systems available for Linux systems, they are often more complex than many people want or need. Ansible is a great alternative to these options because it has a much smaller overhead to get started.

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Common Problems 127148

CentOS Stream 10 – Common Problem 169 – Diagnosis and Fix

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 23 October 2025 Affected versions: CentOS Stream 10 📖 ~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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