Filesystem

How to Configure Log Rotation with logrotate on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Log Rotation with logrotate on RHEL 9

Log files are the primary diagnostic tool for server administrators — but without rotation they become a problem in their own right. An unrotated /var/log/nginx/access.log on a busy server can grow to tens of gigabytes within weeks, filling the filesystem, crashing the logging application, and making the log itself unusable because no tool can efficiently […]

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Common Problems 122562

freebsd-update Install Leaves Kernel and World Mismatch

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 16 March 2024 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~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 and Configure cAdvisor for Container Monitoring on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure cAdvisor for Container Monitoring on RHEL 9

cAdvisor (Container Advisor) is an open-source daemon from Google that collects, aggregates, and exposes resource usage and performance metrics for every running container on a host. Unlike Docker’s built-in docker stats, cAdvisor exposes its data in Prometheus format, making it a natural fit for scraping alongside Node Exporter. This tutorial covers running cAdvisor on RHEL […]

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How to Install Keepalived for High Availability on FreeBSD 14 — step-by-step FreeBSD 14 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Keepalived for High Availability on FreeBSD 14

Introduction How to Install Keepalived for High Availability 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 for […]

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How to Monitor ZFS Pool Health on FreeBSD 14 — step-by-step FreeBSD 14 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor ZFS Pool Health on FreeBSD 14

Introduction How to Monitor ZFS Pool Health 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 for packet […]

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How to Set Up Grafana Alerting on FreeBSD 14 — step-by-step FreeBSD 14 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Grafana Alerting on FreeBSD 14

Introduction How to Set Up Grafana Alerting 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 for packet […]

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Common Problems 120171

Debian 12 – MariaDB fails to start due to InnoDB corruption

🔴 Critical   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 8 February 2024 Affected versions: Debian 12 📖 ~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 k3s Kubernetes on FreeBSD 14 — step-by-step FreeBSD 14 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install k3s Kubernetes on FreeBSD 14

Introduction How to Install k3s Kubernetes 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 for packet filtering, […]

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How to Set Up a FreeBSD Jail for Web Hosting on FreeBSD 14 — step-by-step FreeBSD 14 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a FreeBSD Jail for Web Hosting on FreeBSD 14 (ON-FREEBSD-14)

Introduction How to Set Up a FreeBSD Jail for Web Hosting 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 […]

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How to Configure Disk Quotas on FreeBSD 14 — step-by-step FreeBSD 14 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Disk Quotas on FreeBSD 14 (ON-FREEBSD-14)

Introduction How to Configure Disk Quotas 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 for packet filtering, […]

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