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How To Use Foreman To Manage Puppet Nodes on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Foreman To Manage Puppet Nodes on Ubuntu 14.04

Foreman is an open-source tool that can help with the management of servers, by providing an easy way to interact with Puppet to automate tasks and application deployment. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Foreman with Puppet, and start using it to manage your servers. We will use Foreman for its reporting and External Node Classifier (ENC) capabilities, to ease the management of Puppet.

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How To Install and Use phpPgAdmin on Ubuntu 12.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Use phpPgAdmin on Ubuntu 12.04

phpPgAdmin is a php-based web application that provides a GUI interface for the postgresql system. It performs a similar function to phpMyAdmin, which allows users to manipulate database information in a visual program in MySQL. Here’s how to install and use phpPgAdmin on Ubuntu 12.04.

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How To Configure Nginx as a Web Server and Reverse Proxy for Apache on One Ubuntu 14.04 Droplet — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Nginx as a Web Server and Reverse Proxy for Apache on One Ubuntu 14.04 Droplet

This tutorial will show you how to configure Nginx as both a web server and as a reverse proxy for Apache – all on one Droplet. Depending on the web application, code changes might be required to keep Apache reverse-proxy-aware, especially when SSL sites are configured. To ensure this, we will install an Apache module named **mod_rpaf** which rewrites certain environment variables so it appears that Apache is directly handling requests from web clients.

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

Ubuntu 18.04 — okular — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 6 September 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4830-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2018-1000801 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Okular mishandled certain crafted archives during extraction. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the filesystem. […]

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – dist-upgrade aborts with held broken packages

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 5 September 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 Ubuntu 16.04.7 📖 ~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 […]

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Ubuntu 18.04 Bluetooth Stops Working After Update

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 5 September 2019 📖 ~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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Ubuntu 18.04 — ruby-nokogiri — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu 18.04 — ruby-nokogiri — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 5 September 2019 Affected versions: Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4175-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-5477 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Nokogiri incorrectly handled inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary OS commands. Table of contents […]

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