Troubleshooting

How to Set Up Samba File Sharing on SLES 12 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Samba File Sharing on SLES 12

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Set Up Samba File Sharing on SLES 12 on SLES 12. SLES 12 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Prerequisites Ensure your SLES 12 system is up to date: […]

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How to Configure Server Manager on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Server Manager on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Configure Server Manager on Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Manager is the primary management console introduced in Windows Server 2008 and significantly enhanced in Windows Server 2012 R2 to support multi-server management from a single pane of glass. On Windows Server 2012 R2, Server Manager provides a unified dashboard for installing and managing […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 — crawl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — crawl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 4 December 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7969-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-11722 Upstream summary: David Mendenhall discovered that Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup was incorrectly handling Lua bytecode embedded in an uploaded .crawlrc file. An attacker could possibly use […]

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How to Upgrade Oracle Linux 7 to Oracle Linux 8 — step-by-step Oracle Linux 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Upgrade Oracle Linux 7 to Oracle Linux 8

Introduction Setting up upgrade oracle linux 7 to oracle linux 8 on a Oracle Linux 8 server is a common task for system administrators, DevOps engineers, and site reliability engineers. This guide explains how to Upgrade Oracle Linux 7 to Oracle Linux 8, with all the commands you need, the SELinux and firewalld considerations to […]

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How to Install MariaDB on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install MariaDB on RHEL 7

How to Install MariaDB on RHEL 7 MariaDB is a community-developed, fully open-source relational database management system that serves as the default MySQL-compatible database engine on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Maintained by the original developers of MySQL, MariaDB offers full SQL compliance, excellent performance, and a rich set of storage engines. Because RHEL 7 […]

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Oracle Linux 8 — systemd — security and stability fixes — required update — diagnosis and fix on Oracle Linux 8

Oracle Linux 8 — systemd — security and stability fixes — required update (ELSA-2020-0575)

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 3 December 2020 Affected versions: Oracle Linux 8 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: ELSA advisory ELSA-2020-0575 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-1712 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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Debian 10 — codemirror-js — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 10

Debian 10 — codemirror-js — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 3 December 2020 Affected versions: Debian 10 (buster) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2020-7760 Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance […]

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Common Problems 118389

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – apt update fails with NO_PUBKEY for third-party repository – Fix & Prevention

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 3 December 2020 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 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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Common Problems 115095

RHEL 8 Postfix Mail Delivery Blocked by Firewall and SELinux

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 3 December 2020 📖 ~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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Common Problems 115045

RHEL 8 journalctl Storage Growth Consumes Root Disk

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 3 December 2020 📖 ~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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