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Common Problems 116443

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS – snapd service fails and snap applications do not launch

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 8 October 2024 Affected versions: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Ubuntu 24.04 Ubuntu 24.04.1 📖 ~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 […]

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How to Use Makefile for Build Automation on FreeBSD 14 — step-by-step FreeBSD 14 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Makefile for Build Automation on FreeBSD 14

Introduction FreeBSD 14 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up use makefile for build automation on freebsd 14 on FreeBSD 14 follows the rc.conf/service(8) paradigm rather than systemd, which means enabling a service and configuring its startup options are done differently from any […]

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How to Configure Unattended Upgrades on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up SSH Keys on Ubuntu 24.04

SSH key authentication is far more secure than passwords. This guide covers generating an Ed25519 key pair and deploying it on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server with SSH running A user account on the server An SSH client on your local machine (Linux/macOS/Windows) Step 1 […]

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How to Install InfluxDB and Telegraf on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install InfluxDB and Telegraf on RHEL 9

InfluxDB 2.x is a purpose-built time-series database that excels at storing high-cardinality metrics with millisecond precision, while Telegraf is its companion agent that collects metrics from hundreds of input plugins and writes them directly to InfluxDB. Together they form the “TIG stack” backbone when paired with Grafana for visualisation. On RHEL 9, both packages are […]

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How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication for SSH on FreeBSD 14 — step-by-step FreeBSD 14 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication for SSH on FreeBSD 14

Introduction Deploying set up two-factor authentication for ssh on freebsd 14 on a FreeBSD 14 machine differs from Linux in several important ways: packages come from the FreeBSD Ports Collection or the binary pkg repository, services are registered in /etc/rc.conf via sysrc(8), and firewall rules are written in pf.conf(5) syntax. This tutorial stays entirely within […]

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How to Deploy a Flask App with Gunicorn on FreeBSD 14 — step-by-step FreeBSD 14 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Deploy a Flask App with Gunicorn on FreeBSD 14

Introduction How to Deploy a Flask App with Gunicorn on FreeBSD 14 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 14 server operator. FreeBSD 14 ships with the 15.0-RELEASE kernel, ZFS as the default root filesystem, Capsicum capability sandboxing improvements, and an updated ports tree. Unlike Linux distributions, FreeBSD uses rc(8) for service management, pf […]

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Debian 12 — pam-python — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — pam-python — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 27 September 2024 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-16729 Upstream summary: pam-python before 1.0.7-1 has an issue in regard to the default environment variable handling of Python, which could allow for local root escalation in certain […]

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Common Problems 114622

RHEL 9: auditd Service Stops and Compliance Logging Gaps

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 27 September 2024 📖 ~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 OSPF with FRRouting on FreeBSD 14 — step-by-step FreeBSD 14 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure OSPF with FRRouting on FreeBSD 14

Introduction FreeBSD 14 is a UNIX-derived operating system renowned for its network stack performance, ZFS integration, and Jail isolation primitives. Setting up configure ospf with frrouting on freebsd 14 on FreeBSD 14 follows the rc.conf/service(8) paradigm rather than systemd, which means enabling a service and configuring its startup options are done differently from any Linux […]

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How to Set Up Port Knocking on FreeBSD 14 — step-by-step FreeBSD 14 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Port Knocking on FreeBSD 14

Introduction This guide explains how to Set Up Port Knocking on FreeBSD 14 on FreeBSD 14. FreeBSD uses the pkg(8) binary package manager, rc.conf(5) for service startup configuration, and pf(4) as its primary packet filter. There is no SELinux or AppArmor — instead, FreeBSD provides the MAC (Mandatory Access Control) framework and Capsicum for fine-grained […]

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