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How To Deploy and Manage Your DNS using OctoDNS on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Deploy and Manage Your DNS using OctoDNS on Ubuntu 18.04

OctoDNS is an infrastructure-as-code tool that allows you to deploy and manage your DNS zones using standard software development principles, including version control, testing, and automated deployment. In this tutorial, you’ll install and configure OctoDNS, create a basic DNS configuration, and begin deploying DNS records to a live provider.

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Common Problems 119072

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS locale misconfiguration spams warning messages

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 30 June 2019 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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How to Set Up NAT on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up NAT on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up NAT on Windows Server 2012 R2 Network Address Translation (NAT) allows a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine to function as an internet gateway, translating private IP addresses from an internal network to a public IP address for outbound internet access. This is commonly used for branch offices, isolated lab networks, or […]

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How to Configure PostgreSQL Remote Access on FreeBSD 12 — step-by-step FreeBSD 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure PostgreSQL Remote Access on FreeBSD 12

Introduction How to Configure PostgreSQL Remote Access on FreeBSD 12 is a core administration task for any FreeBSD 12 server operator. FreeBSD 12 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 for packet […]

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

openSUSE Tumbleweed — rpcbind — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory openSUSE-SU-2017:1381-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2017-8779 CVE-2015-7236 Upstream summary: rpcbind through 0.2.4, LIBTIRPC through 1.0.1 and 1.0.2-rc through 1.0.2-rc3, and NTIRPC through 1.4.3 do not consider the maximum RPC data […]

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How to Install and Configure cAdvisor for Container Monitoring on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure cAdvisor for Container Monitoring on RHEL 8

cAdvisor (Container Advisor) is an open-source daemon from Google that collects, aggregates, and exports real-time resource usage and performance metrics for every running container on a host. Unlike Node Exporter, which reports host-level statistics, cAdvisor descends into cgroup hierarchies to expose per-container CPU, memory, network, and filesystem metrics in Prometheus format. On RHEL 8 with […]

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Common Problems 113031

Windows Server 2016 — Cluster-Aware Updating Run Fails Mid-Wave During Cumulative Patch — Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 28 June 2019 Affected versions: Windows Server 2016 📖 ~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 Deploy a Ruby on Rails Application on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Deploy a Ruby on Rails Application on RHEL 7

How to Deploy a Ruby on Rails Application on RHEL 7 Ruby on Rails is a full-featured web application framework that follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern and emphasizes convention over configuration. Deploying a Rails application on RHEL 7 in a production-grade configuration requires several components working together: Rails itself running under Puma (a multi-threaded Ruby […]

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Common Problems 115449

RHEL 7 yum dependency conflict after enabling mixed repositories

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 27 June 2019 Affected versions: RHEL 7 📖 ~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 119111

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS failed unattended upgrades leave security patches unapplied

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 26 June 2019 Affected versions: 14.04 14.04.6 📖 ~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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