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How to Set Up Cron Jobs and Scheduled Tasks on Debian 12 — step-by-step Debian 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Cron Jobs and Scheduled Tasks on Debian 12

Introduction How to Set Up Cron Jobs and Scheduled Tasks on Debian 12 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 12 Bookworm server. Debian 12 Bookworm 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 […]

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How to Set Up Dovecot IMAP Server on FreeBSD 14 — step-by-step FreeBSD 14 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Dovecot IMAP Server on FreeBSD 14

Introduction How to Set Up Dovecot IMAP Server 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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NetBSD 9.4 — xenkernel410 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on NetBSD 9.4

NetBSD 9.4 — xenkernel410 — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: NetBSD 9.4 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: pkgsrc audit-packages entry Related CVEs: CVE-2018-5244 Upstream summary: pkgsrc audit-packages flagged xenkernel410-[0-9]* for vulnerability class 'denial-of-service'. Reference: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5244 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis […]

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FreeBSD 14 — jp-openoffice — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on FreeBSD 14

FreeBSD 14 — jp-openoffice — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 11 January 2024 Affected versions: FreeBSD 14 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: FreeBSD VuXML VuXML topic: openoffice — DOC document heap overflow vulnerability Related CVEs: CVE-2005-0941 Upstream summary: AD-LAB reports that a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in OpenOffice's handling of DOC documents. When reading a […]

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NetBSD 9.4 — ruby19-railties — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on NetBSD 9.4

NetBSD 9.4 — ruby19-railties — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: NetBSD 9.4 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: pkgsrc audit-packages entry Upstream summary: pkgsrc audit-packages flagged ruby19-railties<3.0.4 for vulnerability class 'cross-site-request-forgeries'. Reference: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/2/8/csrf-protection-bypass-in-ruby-on-rails Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary […]

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How to Configure Redis Cluster and Sentinel on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Redis Cluster and Sentinel on RHEL 9

A single Redis instance has two failure modes: if the server goes down, all cached data is lost and every request hits the origin database; and if the dataset grows beyond a single server’s RAM, there’s no built-in way to distribute it. Redis provides two solutions: Redis Sentinel for high availability (automatic failover with a […]

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Amazon Linux 2 — opensc — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Amazon Linux 2

Amazon Linux 2 — opensc — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: Amazon Linux 2 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Amazon Linux advisory ALAS2-2024-2566 Related CVEs: CVE-2023-5992 CVE-2023-40660 CVE-2023-40661 CVE-2019-15945 CVE-2019-15946 CVE-2019-19479 CVE-2019-20792 CVE-2020-26570  +12 more Upstream summary: A vulnerability was found in OpenSC where PKCS#1 encryption padding removal is not implemented as […]

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How to Configure Network Interface Bonding on FreeBSD 14 — step-by-step FreeBSD 14 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Network Interface Bonding on FreeBSD 14

Introduction This guide explains how to Configure Network Interface Bonding 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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