Security updates for Wednesday (28.03.2018)
Security updates were issued by Debian ([DSA 4152-1] mupdf security update,[DSA 4153-1] firefox-esr security update, [DSA 4154-1] net-snmp security update)
Category: Linux
Security updates for Tuesday (27.03.2018)
From today, I’m starting to publish daily security updates. For now with limited number of vendors. Security updates were issued by Debian ([DSA 4151-1] librelp)
Just two words Meltdown and Spectre
Here comes next big vulnerability Meltdown and Spectre or CVE-2017-5753/CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5754 discovered by Google project Zero team. Patches are available for some operating systems and are coming reallt soon for others. In essence bug in some CPUs allows attacker …
ProFTPD updated to version 1.3.5b
Following announcement of ProFTPD version 1.3.5b CentAlt rpm has been updated.
How to add simple bell command to bash
Often when running commands in Linux terminal I had to multitask and switch to another terminal. That is good, but how to get notification that first task is completed? We all get bell notification from the terminal. So why not …
Linux screen command – scroll inside screen
Linux screen command is great tool if you need long running command to execute even you are closing the session. In case you want to see scrollback above your current screen standard tools on your terminal do not apply. Instead …
ProFTPD updated to version 1.3.5a
Following announcement of ProFTPD version 1.3.5a CentAlt rpm has been updated.
Postgres 9.4 failed to start in container – How to Fix
After upgrading Postgres to version 9.4 in VM using container service failed to start with following message: Quick search pointed to lack of shared memory, but I had more than enough. It turned that fix is to change dynamic_shared_memory_type from …
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Centos 7 how to fix -bash: ifconfig: command not found
If you installed CentOS 7 minimal you might see following error message when you try to use ifconfig to see your ip address: If you search for the package it is in net-tools package In case you do not want …
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How to solve timeout in phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in php intended to handle administration of MySQL servers over the web interface. When trying to import large SQL dumps you might see following message: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded If you are …